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. 16 shown for “Hugh Bridport” — 45 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Carolyn Mishner, by Hugh Bridport

Carolyn Mishner

Hugh Bridport · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Kennedy & Lucas

Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Kennedy & Lucas · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady, by Hugh Bridport

Portrait of a Lady

Hugh Bridport · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
William Henry Furness, by Hugh Bridport, 1794 - 1868

William Henry Furness

Hugh Bridport, 1794 - 1868 · c. 1817-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joel Roberts Poinsett, by Hugh Bridport

Joel Roberts Poinsett

Hugh Bridport · 1843

Public domainThe Met
[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Rider, Alexander

[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Rider, Alexander · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing of Clinton Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Drawing of Clinton Vase

Thomas Fletcher · ca. 1824–25

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868

Portrait of a Gentleman

Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joel Roberts Poinsett, by Edward Greene Malbone

Joel Roberts Poinsett

Edward Greene Malbone · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Francis Barton Stockton, by Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868

Mrs. Francis Barton Stockton

Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen, by Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868

Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen

Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Lee Shippen, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Thomas Lee Shippen

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platysiphonia delicata

Platysiphonia delicata

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oryctolagus cuniculus cuniculus

Oryctolagus cuniculus cuniculus

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Langston Hughes, by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Langston Hughes

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hughes H-1 Racer, by Hughes Aircraft Co.

Hughes H-1 Racer

Hughes Aircraft Co.

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 37891 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.