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 “Jane Simonton Chapman” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 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.
Embroidered sampler, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Embroidered sampler

Jane Simonton Chapman · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens exilis Hedw.

Fissidens exilis Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · May 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tablecover, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Tablecover

Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.

Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilted Tablecover, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Quilted Tablecover

Jane Simonton Chapman · 1821–25

Public domainThe Met
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tablecover, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Tablecover

Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Oncophorus wahlenbergii Brid.

Oncophorus wahlenbergii Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pillow Slip, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Pillow Slip

Jane Simonton Chapman · 1821–25

Public domainThe Met
Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth.

Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered whitework coverlet, by Jane Simonton Chapman

Embroidered whitework coverlet

Jane Simonton Chapman · ca. 1821–25

Public domainThe Met
Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P. Beauv.

Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Henry Augustus Carter, by Nicholas Biddle Kittell

Charles Henry Augustus Carter

Nicholas Biddle Kittell · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Jatropha multifida L.

Jatropha multifida L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Man

Frans Hals · early 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Caulerpa prolifera (Forssk.) J.V.Lamouroux

Caulerpa prolifera (Forssk.) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia uniflora L.

Eugenia uniflora L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (Kunth) Cabrera

Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (Kunth) Cabrera

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1955

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
Terminalia catappa L.

Terminalia catappa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flora, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Flora

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Public domainThe Met
Tribulus cistoides L.

Tribulus cistoides L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1951

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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 9407 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 09:36 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.