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 “John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:09 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 Sackville Children, by John Hoppner

The Sackville Children

John Hoppner · 1796

Public domainThe Met
Generals Harvey, Wood and Mansfield, by John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870

Generals Harvey, Wood and Mansfield

John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Andrew Johnson, by John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870

Andrew Johnson

John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasants Dancing and Feasting, by David Teniers the Younger

Peasants Dancing and Feasting

David Teniers the Younger · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Andrew Jackson, by John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870

Andrew Jackson

John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · 1831-32

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Another Peep into the Play-Ground – "You're none of my child", by John Doyle

Another Peep into the Play-Ground – "You're none of my child"

John Doyle · December 31, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Close up in the Rear, by Bufford, John Henry

Close up in the Rear

Bufford, John Henry · 1856-1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill, by James Gillray

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill

James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Public domainThe Met
Dress up in Front, by Bufford, John Henry

Dress up in Front

Bufford, John Henry · 1856-1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal, by John Doyle

Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal

John Doyle · May 14, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Fetching the Old Mare Home, by Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm

Fetching the Old Mare Home

Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm · 1856-1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition, by James Gillray

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray · April 18, 1807

Public domainThe Met
John H. Bufford. Practical Lithographer, by Bufford, John Henry

John H. Bufford. Practical Lithographer

Bufford, John Henry · before October 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death, by James Gillray

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death

James Gillray · March 5, 1806

Public domainThe Met
Black Valley Railroad by J. H. Bufford and Sons, by J. H. Bufford and Sons

Black Valley Railroad by J. H. Bufford and Sons

J. H. Bufford and Sons · ca 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Leaf Out of Nicholas Nickleby with Slight Variations – Nicholas quits the Company – Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles, by John Doyle

A Leaf Out of Nicholas Nickleby with Slight Variations – Nicholas quits the Company – Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles

John Doyle · March 26, 1839

Public domainThe Met
The Ratcatcher's Daughter, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

The Ratcatcher's Daughter

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain; or John Bull swamped in a Flood of Taxes, by James Gillray

A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain; or John Bull swamped in a Flood of Taxes

James Gillray · May 9, 1806

Public domainThe Met
Yankee Volunteers Marching into Dixie in 1862 by, by Morse, Charles Fessenden

Yankee Volunteers Marching into Dixie in 1862 by

Morse, Charles Fessenden · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford

Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by Thomas Ryder I

Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

Thomas Ryder I · first published 1794; reissued 1852

Public domainThe Met
The Arkansas Traveller, by J. H. Bufford and Company

The Arkansas Traveller

J. H. Bufford and Company · 1859

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. 228 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 515017 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 04:09 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.