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. 17 shown for “Henry Pratt” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 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.
Mrs. Henry Pratt (Rebecca Claypoole)

Mrs. Henry Pratt (Rebecca Claypoole)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Richard Henry Pratt, by John N. Choate, 1848 - 1902

Richard Henry Pratt

John N. Choate, 1848 - 1902 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Spoon, by Henry Pratt

Table Spoon

Henry Pratt · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Minimic, by James Wells Champney, 1843 - 1903

Minimic

James Wells Champney, 1843 - 1903 · c. 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Firmin Holding His Head

Saint Firmin Holding His Head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1225–75

Public domainThe Met
William Henry Harrison, by Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

William Henry Harrison

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · c. 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partisan of the Bodyguard of Vittorio Amadeo II (1666–1732), Duke of Savoy

Partisan of the Bodyguard of Vittorio Amadeo II (1666–1732), Duke of Savoy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait, by Matthew Pratt, 23 Sep 1734 - 9 Jan 1805

Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait

Matthew Pratt, 23 Sep 1734 - 9 Jan 1805 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roncone of the Bodyguard of the Gonzaga Family

Roncone of the Bodyguard of the Gonzaga Family

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

Public domainThe Met
John Pratt, by A. C. Nichols

John Pratt

A. C. Nichols · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Bogert, Jr., by Henry Inman

James Bogert, Jr.

Henry Inman · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Armet

Armet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry with the Annunciation

Tapestry with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1410–20

Public domainThe Met
Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612), by Hans Stromair

Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612)

Hans Stromair · dated 1577

Public domainThe Met
Eared Dagger

Eared Dagger

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Dagger

Dagger

Artist not stated in the record · 1380–1400

Public domainThe Met
Sword

Sword

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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. 82 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. 117038 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 04:25 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.