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. 24 shown for “Isaac G. Tyson” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:58 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.
Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Isaac G. Tyson

Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Isaac G. Tyson · November 19, 1863

Public domainThe Met
Isaac F. Tyson, by John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893

Isaac F. Tyson

John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Blessing Jacob, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis dielsii Pilg.

Eragrostis dielsii Pilg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Isaac Hutton

Candlestick

Isaac Hutton · 1800–1815

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis falcata (Gaudich.) Gaudich. ex Steud.

Eragrostis falcata (Gaudich.) Gaudich. ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Isaac Hutton

Candlestick

Isaac Hutton · 1800–1815

Public domainThe Met
Monachather paradoxus Steud.

Monachather paradoxus Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Public domainThe Met
Austrostipa elegantissima (Labill.) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett

Austrostipa elegantissima (Labill.) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett

Artist not stated in the record · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Myer Isaacs, by Unidentified Artist

Samuel Myer Isaacs

Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet

Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Monnina deppei G. Don

Monnina deppei G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pepper Caster, by Isaac Hutton

Pepper Caster

Isaac Hutton · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Spalacopsis (Euthuorus) filum brevialatum

Spalacopsis (Euthuorus) filum brevialatum

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson, by Charles Fraser

Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson

Charles Fraser · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Spalacopsis (Spalacopsis) unicolor

Spalacopsis (Spalacopsis) unicolor

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Isaac Hutton

Beaker

Isaac Hutton · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Members, House of Assembly

Members, House of Assembly

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creamer, by Isaac Hutton

Creamer

Isaac Hutton · 1810–30

Public domainThe Met
Procyon lotor maynardi

Procyon lotor maynardi

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Isaac Hutton

Pitcher

Isaac Hutton · 1790–1817

Public domainThe Met
Psydrax odorata (G. Forst.) A.C. Sm. & S.P. Darwin

Psydrax odorata (G. Forst.) A.C. Sm. & S.P. Darwin

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1976

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. 147 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. 762804 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 16:58 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.