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. 12 shown for “Nathaniel Dearborn, 1786 - 1852” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:04 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Edwin Forrest, by Unidentified Artist

Edwin Forrest

Unidentified Artist · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by Nathaniel Dearborn, 1786 - 1852

John Adams

Nathaniel Dearborn, 1786 - 1852 · c. 1810-26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Martha Washington, by Nathaniel Dearborn, 1786 - 1852

Mrs. Martha Washington

Nathaniel Dearborn, 1786 - 1852 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Dearborn, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Henry Dearborn

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Raleigh Dearborn, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

George Raleigh Dearborn

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Franklin Pierce and William R. King, by Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888

Franklin Pierce and William R. King

Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Potter, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nathaniel Potter

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Williams, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nathaniel Williams

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leonard Bacon and Nathaniel Taylor, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Leonard Bacon and Nathaniel Taylor

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Possibly Nathaniel Russell or J. Dawson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Possibly Nathaniel Russell or J. Dawson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 37230 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 19:04 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.