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 “Oliver H. Willard, died 1875” — 59 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:23 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.
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Self-Portrait

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Young Woman, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Portrait of a Young Woman

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artillery, Musician, by Oliver H. Willard

Artillery, Musician

Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman with White Hair, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Portrait of a Gentleman with White Hair

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ordnance, Private, by Oliver H. Willard

Ordnance, Private

Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man in Masonic Attire, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Portrait of a Man in Masonic Attire

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artillery, Quartermaster Sergeant, by Oliver H. Willard

Artillery, Quartermaster Sergeant

Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Portrait of a Man

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fatigue, Marching Order, by Oliver H. Willard

Fatigue, Marching Order

Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Seated Young Woman, by Oliver H. Willard, died 1875

Seated Young Woman

Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Light Artillery, Sergeant Major, by Oliver H. Willard

Light Artillery, Sergeant Major

Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Orbivestus karaguensis (Oliv. & Hiern) H. Rob.

Orbivestus karaguensis (Oliv. & Hiern) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/5/84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Man Holding Patent Office Book], by Oliver H. Willard

[Man Holding Patent Office Book]

Oliver H. Willard · ca. 1857

Public domainThe Met
90c Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry special printing single, by Continental Bank Note Company

90c Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry special printing single

Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Maerua nervosa Oliv.

Maerua nervosa Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Carlo Crivelli · 1472

Public domainThe Met
90c Perry single, by Continental Bank Note Company

90c Perry single

Continental Bank Note Company · June 25, 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

The Flight into Egypt

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Public domainThe Met
90c Perry plate proof single, by Continental Bank Note Company

90c Perry plate proof single

Continental Bank Note Company · June 25, 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray, by Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949

Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray

Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949 · 1910

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 · 0 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. 941959 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-06 03:23 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.