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. 18 shown for “Homer Hardiman, American” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:00 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.
The Gulf Stream, by Winslow Homer

The Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer · 1899; reworked by 1906

Public domainThe Met
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family, by Homer Hardiman, American

Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family

Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Veteran in a New Field, by Winslow Homer

The Veteran in a New Field

Winslow Homer · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Crate sent by Lt. Garwood Hardiman to Mrs. Ora Mae Hardiman

Crate sent by Lt. Garwood Hardiman to Mrs. Ora Mae Hardiman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Pineapple quilt gifted to Lucy Hardiman Roundtree from Lydia Hardiman, by Lydia Hardiman, American

Pineapple quilt gifted to Lucy Hardiman Roundtree from Lydia Hardiman

Lydia Hardiman, American · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Northeaster, by Winslow Homer

Northeaster

Winslow Homer · 1895; reworked by 1901

Public domainThe Met
Coat and bonnet belonging to Delores Eugenia Hardiman

Coat and bonnet belonging to Delores Eugenia Hardiman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inside the Bar, by Winslow Homer

Inside the Bar

Winslow Homer · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Saltator atriceps atriceps

Saltator atriceps atriceps

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry, by Edward Sheffield Bartholomew

Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry

Edward Sheffield Bartholomew · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Pachyramphus aglaiae latirostris

Pachyramphus aglaiae latirostris

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River, by Winslow Homer

Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River

Winslow Homer · 1905–10

Public domainThe Met
Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, by Winslow Homer

Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba

Winslow Homer · 1902

Public domainThe Met
Dressing for the Carnival, by Winslow Homer

Dressing for the Carnival

Winslow Homer · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Shepherd and Shepherdess, by Winslow Homer

Shepherd and Shepherdess

Winslow Homer · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Moonlight, Wood Island Light, by Winslow Homer

Moonlight, Wood Island Light

Winslow Homer · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Camp Fire, by Winslow Homer

Camp Fire

Winslow Homer · 1880

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. 443 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. 1016213 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 21:00 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.