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. 15 shown for “Henry Salem Hubbell, 25 Dec 1870 - 9 Jan 1949” — 43 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:27 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.
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Henry Salem Hubbell, 25 Dec 1870 - 9 Jan 1949

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry Salem Hubbell, 25 Dec 1870 - 9 Jan 1949 · 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray, by Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949

Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray

Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Harlan Stone, by Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949

Portrait of Harlan Stone

Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949 · 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Goldfish, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

The Goldfish

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Goldfish, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

The Goldfish

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edwin H. Chapin

Edwin H. Chapin

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Truman and his Military Advisors, by Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 - 22 Jul 1949

Truman and his Military Advisors

Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 - 22 Jul 1949 · 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Lee, by James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867

Henry Lee

James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867 · c. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edwin Hubbell Chapin, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Wager Halleck, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

Henry Wager Halleck

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizothrix rubella

Schizothrix rubella

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry O. Flipper, as a Cadet, by Homer Lee, 18 May 1856 - 25 Jan 1923

Henry O. Flipper, as a Cadet

Homer Lee, 18 May 1856 - 25 Jan 1923 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1743340 matched · 40 examined · 27 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 13:27 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.