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. 22 shown for “Henry W. Bellows” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:33 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society, by T. Dixon

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

T. Dixon · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket bottle, by American Flint Glass Manufactory

Pocket bottle

American Flint Glass Manufactory · 1769–74

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by John Henry Belter

Armchair

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brandy Warmer, by Gerardus Boyce

Brandy Warmer

Gerardus Boyce · 1840–57

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Faith, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Faith

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hope, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Hope

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1869

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. 3432 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1014085 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 11:33 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.