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 “Pennington, Susan M. H.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:16 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Invention for Improvement in Processes of Coloring Photographs, by Pennington, Susan M. H.

Invention for Improvement in Processes of Coloring Photographs

Pennington, Susan M. H. · ca 1878-07-09

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia densiflora (Micheli) H. Hara

Ludwigia densiflora (Micheli) H. Hara

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Hank Pennington

Photograph of Hank Pennington

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s-1910s

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Perebea xanthochyma H. Karst.

Perebea xanthochyma H. Karst.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/2/62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Jamesonia robusta H. Karst.

Jamesonia robusta H. Karst.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 27/2/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanuman Conversing

Hanuman Conversing

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Munnozia asplundii H. Rob.

Munnozia asplundii H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/12/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Pupils in Greek Dress, by Thomas Eakins

Two Pupils in Greek Dress

Thomas Eakins · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Lucile Blanche Pennington

Photograph of Lucile Blanche Pennington

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Phytolacca sanguinea H. Walter in Engl.

Phytolacca sanguinea H. Walter in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/11/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Moore (1852–1933), by Edouard Manet

George Moore (1852–1933)

Edouard Manet · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Pentacalia arborea (Kunth) H. Rob. & Cuatrec.

Pentacalia arborea (Kunth) H. Rob. & Cuatrec.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 2/12/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ensemble, by Josephine H. Egan

Ensemble

Josephine H. Egan · ca. 1882

Public domainThe Met
Ageratina gracilis (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Ageratina gracilis (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/11/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Harp, by Rose Adélaïde Ducreux

Self-Portrait with a Harp

Rose Adélaïde Ducreux · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Elaphoglossum engelii (H. Karst.) Christ

Elaphoglossum engelii (H. Karst.) Christ

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/11/61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Source of the Loue, by Gustave Courbet

The Source of the Loue

Gustave Courbet · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Munnozia jussieui (Cass.) H. Rob. & Brettell

Munnozia jussieui (Cass.) H. Rob. & Brettell

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/12/61

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. 528 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1947547 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 13:16 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.