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 Orr, 1822 - 1908” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.

Interior View of Meade Brothers' Daguerreotype Gallery, Broadway, New York, by Nathaniel Orr, 1822 - 1908

Interior View of Meade Brothers' Daguerreotype Gallery, Broadway, New York

Nathaniel Orr, 1822 - 1908 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
James Lawrence Orr, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

James Lawrence Orr

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Lawrence Orr, by McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860

James Lawrence Orr

McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aeshna canadensis

Aeshna canadensis

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill, by Unidentified Artist

The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Bogardus, by Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908

Abraham Bogardus

Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prominent Candidates for the Democratic Nomination at Charleston, South Carolina, by Unidentified Artist

Prominent Candidates for the Democratic Nomination at Charleston, South Carolina

Unidentified Artist · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Street Lamppost Letterbox

Street Lamppost Letterbox

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Bogardus, by Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908

Abraham Bogardus

Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Business card of Abraham Bogardus, by Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908

Business card of Abraham Bogardus

Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1872

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. 81413 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 01:44 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.