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 “Mason Jackson” — 60 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:47 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.
Daniel Maclise, R.A., from "Illustrated London News", by Mason Jackson

Daniel Maclise, R.A., from "Illustrated London News"

Mason Jackson · May 9, 1868

Public domainThe Met
Rendezvous of Mosby's Men, by Mason Jackson, 1819 - 1903

Rendezvous of Mosby's Men

Mason Jackson, 1819 - 1903 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraternal Assistance, from "Illustrated London News", by Mason Jackson

Fraternal Assistance, from "Illustrated London News"

Mason Jackson · August 19, 1865

Public domainThe Met
Charles Jackson and John Mason Williams, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Charles Jackson and John Mason Williams

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré", by Mason Jackson

Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré"

Mason Jackson · October 2, 1862

Public domainThe Met
Navarretia divaricata subsp. vividior (Jeps. & V. L. Bailey) H. Mason

Navarretia divaricata subsp. vividior (Jeps. & V. L. Bailey) H. Mason

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Adopted by Governor Mason for University of Michigan (elevation and plan), by Alexander Jackson Davis

Design Adopted by Governor Mason for University of Michigan (elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Ruppia polycarpa L.R. Mason

Ruppia polycarpa L.R. Mason

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Feb 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tumbler, by Bakewell, Page & Bakewell

Tumbler

Bakewell, Page & Bakewell · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Masonic Memorial, by Inger, Christian

Masonic Memorial

Inger, Christian · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mason's Template for the Battlement over a Cornice at Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York, by Alexander Jackson Davis

Mason's Template for the Battlement over a Cornice at Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis · ca. 1864–65

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring Landscape, by Nukina Kaioku

Spring Landscape

Nukina Kaioku · 1844

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Rocks with Cascading Waterfall; Fishing Boats by a Lake Hamlet, by Aiseki

Fantastic Rocks with Cascading Waterfall; Fishing Boats by a Lake Hamlet

Aiseki · first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes of the Four Seasons, by Yamamoto Baiitsu

Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Yamamoto Baiitsu · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Peter, by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)

Saint Peter

Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (Her Last Communion before Being Dragged by Oxen), by Giovanni Battista Maganza il Giovane

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (Her Last Communion before Being Dragged by Oxen)

Giovanni Battista Maganza il Giovane · 1556–1630

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints, by Gideon Saint

Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints

Gideon Saint · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Macrosiphum gentneri

Macrosiphum gentneri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1946

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 3 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. 86774 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-01 01:47 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.