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 “Osborn's Gallery” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:06 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 Evacuation of Fort Sumter, by Osborn's Gallery

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter

Osborn's Gallery · April 1861

Public domainThe Met
Mr. & Mrs. J. Osborn Milne, by J. Osborn Milne

Mr. & Mrs. J. Osborn Milne

J. Osborn Milne · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861, by J. M. Osborn

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861

J. M. Osborn · April 1861

Public domainThe Met
Stephen Decatur, by M. Osborn, active c. 1813

Stephen Decatur

M. Osborn, active c. 1813 · c. 1812-15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861, by J. M. Osborn

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861

J. M. Osborn · April 1861

Public domainThe Met
Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 24 May 1816 - 18 Jul 1868

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 24 May 1816 - 18 Jul 1868 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861, by J. M. Osborn

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861

J. M. Osborn · April 1861

Public domainThe Met
Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik.

Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salient with North-west Casemates, Fort Sumter, by J. M. Osborn

Salient with North-west Casemates, Fort Sumter

J. M. Osborn · April 1861

Public domainThe Met
Convolvulus arvensis L.

Convolvulus arvensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Poa pratensis L.

Poa pratensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Hordeum jubatum L.

Hordeum jubatum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Music-Making Angels, by Albrecht Dürer

Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer · 1521

Public domainThe Met
Hordeum pusillum Nutt.

Hordeum pusillum Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Angel Appearing to Zacharias, by William Blake

The Angel Appearing to Zacharias

William Blake · 1799–1800

Public domainThe Met
Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.

Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Tahitian Women, by Paul Gauguin

Two Tahitian Women

Paul Gauguin · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Vitis vulpina L.

Vitis vulpina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4), by William Sharp

"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)

William Sharp · 1793

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. subsp. macrocarpa

Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. subsp. macrocarpa

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1894

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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 60458 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 01:06 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.