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 “Josiah Austin” — 59 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:42 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.
Teapot, by Josiah Austin

Teapot

Josiah Austin · 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Quincy and Josiah Quincy, Jr., by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Josiah Quincy and Josiah Quincy, Jr.

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salt, by Josiah Austin

Salt

Josiah Austin · 1755–65

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Johnson Hawes Self-Portrait, by Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901

Josiah Johnson Hawes Self-Portrait

Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salt, by Josiah Austin

Salt

Josiah Austin · 1755–65

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Harlan, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Josiah Harlan

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porringer, by Josiah Austin

Porringer

Josiah Austin · 1750–76

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Quincy, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Josiah Quincy

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Times, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

The Times, Plate 2

William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Parker, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Josiah Parker

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Times, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

The Times, Plate 2

William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Hewes Anthony, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Josiah Hewes Anthony

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Times, Plate 2, by William Hogarth

The Times, Plate 2

William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Quincy, by Horatio Greenough, 6 Sep 1805 - 18 Dec 1852

Josiah Quincy

Horatio Greenough, 6 Sep 1805 - 18 Dec 1852 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4, by Robert Dodd

The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4

Robert Dodd · January 1, 1792

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Hawes family, by Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901

Josiah Hawes family

Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 · c. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Hogarth, by Benjamin Smith

William Hogarth

Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Meigs, by Unidentified Artist

Josiah Meigs

Unidentified Artist · c. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Hogarth, by Benjamin Smith

William Hogarth

Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Cook, Jr, by Unidentified Artist

Josiah Cook, Jr

Unidentified Artist · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Beggar's Opera, Act III, by William Blake

The Beggar's Opera, Act III

William Blake · July 1, 1790

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Minot, by L. Wieser, active c. 1881

Josiah Minot

L. Wieser, active c. 1881 · c. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Beggar's Opera, Act III, by William Blake

The Beggar's Opera, Act III

William Blake · July 1, 1790

Public domainThe Met
Josiah Henson, by Bradshaw & Godart, active 1876 - 1878

Josiah Henson

Bradshaw & Godart, active 1876 - 1878 · 1876

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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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. 18454 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 2026-08-29 05:42 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.