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. 16 shown for “Nathaniel Coffin” — 45 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:53 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.
Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–90

Public domainThe Met
Nathaniel Coffin, by Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

Nathaniel Coffin

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square, by Currier & Ives

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square

Currier & Ives · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Nathaniel Coffin

Nathaniel Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Democracy in Search of a Candidate, by John Cameron

The Democracy in Search of a Candidate

John Cameron · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to "Twelve Years a Slave"), by Nathaniel Orr, 1822 - 1908

Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to "Twelve Years a Slave")

Nathaniel Orr, 1822 - 1908 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square, by Currier & Ives

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square

Currier & Ives · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Unidentified Artist

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Body of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, Lying in State at the City Hall, N.Y., April 24th & 25th, 1865, by Currier & Ives

The Body of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, Lying in State at the City Hall, N.Y., April 24th & 25th, 1865

Currier & Ives · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Mott, by Unidentified Artist

Lucretia Mott

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, active 1865 - 1884

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, active 1865 - 1884 · c. 1860 (printed later)

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14534 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 23:53 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.