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. 14 shown for “Jonathan Scott Hartley” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:49 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.
George Inness Gold Medal, by Jonathan Scott Hartley

George Inness Gold Medal

Jonathan Scott Hartley · 1900

Public domainThe Met
Edwin Booth As Brutus, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Edwin Booth As Brutus

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olive Trees at Tivoli, by George Inness

Olive Trees at Tivoli

George Inness · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Bruce Crane, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1845 - 1912

Bruce Crane

Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1845 - 1912 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wildflower, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Wildflower

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Gilbert As Sir Peter Teazle, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

John Gilbert As Sir Peter Teazle

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrapbook page (Meade Brothers)

Scrapbook page (Meade Brothers)

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judge Noah Davis, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Judge Noah Davis

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lawrence Barrett As Cassius, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Lawrence Barrett As Cassius

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Thomas Evans, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

William Thomas Evans

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · modeled 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uromyrtus brassii (Merr. & L.M. Perry) A.J. Scott

Uromyrtus brassii (Merr. & L.M. Perry) A.J. Scott

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uromyrtus archboldiana (Merr. & L.M. Perry) A.J. Scott

Uromyrtus archboldiana (Merr. & L.M. Perry) A.J. Scott

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maripa glabra Choisy

Maripa glabra Choisy

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1987 to 21 Jul 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rudgea lanceifolia Salisb.

Rudgea lanceifolia Salisb.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1987 to 21 Jul 1987

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. 55 matched · 24 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 27191 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 2026-09-03 18:49 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.