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 Jones” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 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.
Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651, by Griswold and Gunnison

Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651

Griswold and Gunnison · 1864

Public domainThe Met
John Jones Waldo, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Jones Waldo

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock, by John Jones

Wall clock

John Jones · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

John Paul Jones

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814

John Paul Jones

Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Paul Jones (1747–1792), by Jean Antoine Houdon

John Paul Jones (1747–1792)

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1903, after a model of 1781

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Unidentified Artist

John Paul Jones

Unidentified Artist · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society, by T. Dixon

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

T. Dixon · 1852

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869

John Paul Jones

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Unidentified Artist

John Paul Jones

Unidentified Artist · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall Clock, by Thomas Seymour

Tall Clock

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Johann Elias Haid, 1739 - 1809

John Paul Jones

Johann Elias Haid, 1739 - 1809 · c. 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth, by John Jones

Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth

John Jones · 1787

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

John Paul Jones

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet (part of a set)

Bracelet (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
John Paul Jones, by Carl Guttenberg, 1743 - 1790

John Paul Jones

Carl Guttenberg, 1743 - 1790 · c. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet (part of a set)

Bracelet (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress, by Winslow Homer, 24 Feb 1836 - 29 Sep 1910

The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress

Winslow Homer, 24 Feb 1836 - 29 Sep 1910 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Necklace (part of a set)

Necklace (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Marquis de Lafayette, by John Jones, 1745 - 1797

Marquis de Lafayette

John Jones, 1745 - 1797 · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of earrings (part of a set)

Pair of earrings (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
1c John Paul Jones and John Barry plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

1c John Paul Jones and John Barry plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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. 343 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 294427 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 23:43 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.