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. 17 shown for “Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993” — 45 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 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.
Odalisque in Grisaille, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Odalisque in Grisaille

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · ca. 1824–34

Public domainThe Met
Harold W. Ross, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Harold W. Ross

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
William Reed Huntington, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

William Reed Huntington

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Robert Hawley Ingersoll, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Robert Hawley Ingersoll

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Nelson Page, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Thomas Nelson Page

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
John Augustine McCall, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

John Augustine McCall

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woods Hutchinson, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Woods Hutchinson

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julia Marlowe, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Julia Marlowe

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry John Heinz, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Henry John Heinz

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Horace Gallup, by Oscar White, born 1921

George Horace Gallup

Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Cash Penney, by Oscar White, born 1921

James Cash Penney

Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Sulzer, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

William Sulzer

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1905

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. 87337 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 16:56 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.