OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 21 shown for “Henry Hannah” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 04:56 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Slento, by Henry Hannah

Slento

Henry Hannah · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure of Hannah More, by Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796

Figure of Hannah More

Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · 1830–1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Winter" Needlework Picture, by Hannah Jane Robinson

"Winter" Needlework Picture

Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Urn, by Paul Revere Jr.

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hannah Pemberton, by John Smibert

Hannah Pemberton

John Smibert · 1734

Public domainThe Met
Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse, by Unidentified

Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse

Unidentified · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saron Panerus Slendro

Saron Panerus Slendro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Bloomfield Giles, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Hannah Bloomfield Giles

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · c. 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celempung

Celempung

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Levering (Howell), by Unidentified

Hannah Levering (Howell)

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Rotation Office, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Rotation Office

Thomas Rowlandson · [June 8, 1774] 1779 reissue (?)

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Carrington Cabell, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Hannah Carrington Cabell

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Counsellor O.P.–Defender of our Theatric Liberties, by James Gillray

Counsellor O.P.–Defender of our Theatric Liberties

James Gillray · December 5, 1809

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Adams, by Francis Alexander, 3 Feb 1800 - 27 Mar 1880

Hannah Adams

Francis Alexander, 3 Feb 1800 - 27 Mar 1880 · 1827-36

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Counsellor O.P.–Defender of our Theatric Liberties, by James Gillray

Counsellor O.P.–Defender of our Theatric Liberties

James Gillray · December 5, 1809

Public domainThe Met
Hannah Breck, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Hannah Breck

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Village Doctor, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Village Doctor

Thomas Rowlandson · June 8, 1774

Public domainThe Met
A Rotation Office, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Rotation Office

Thomas Rowlandson · June 8, 1774

Public domainThe Met
The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition, by James Gillray

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray · April 18, 1807

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 43 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 117378 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 04:56 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.