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. 12 shown for “John Goddard” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:45 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

John Goddard, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Goddard

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boerhavia pedunculosa A. Rich.

Boerhavia pedunculosa A. Rich.

Artist not stated in the record · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lantana rugosa Thunb.

Lantana rugosa Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forestiera neomexicana A. Gray

Forestiera neomexicana A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amelanchier utahensis Koehne

Amelanchier utahensis Koehne

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amelanchier utahensis Koehne

Amelanchier utahensis Koehne

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hesperostipa comata (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth

Hesperostipa comata (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eriocoma hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Rydb.

Eriocoma hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex hystericina Muhl. ex Willd.

Carex hystericina Muhl. ex Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1774

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260665 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 10:45 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.