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 “Portrait of Harriet Bell Hayden” — 45 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:18 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.
Portrait of a Man, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

Portrait of a Man

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · 1528–29

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Harriet Bell Hayden

Portrait of Harriet Bell Hayden

Artist not stated in the record · 1864 circa

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Andrew Sigourney, by Gilbert Stuart

Mrs. Andrew Sigourney

Gilbert Stuart · Ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman, by Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939

Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman

Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939 · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Public domainThe Met
Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman, by Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939

Study for portrait, Bell Tilghman

Harriet Blackstone, American, 1864–1939 · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Christ, by Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

Head of Christ

Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860 · c. 1850-60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Newspaper clipping with a portrait of Harriet Tubman, by John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s

Newspaper clipping with a portrait of Harriet Tubman

John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s · ca. 1868; printed 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Tubman, by John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s

Harriet Tubman

John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annie Harriet Haden, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903

Annie Harriet Haden

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 11 Jul 1834 - 17 Jul 1903 · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Harriet Handy Winder, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mrs. Harriet Handy Winder

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miss Harriet Brown, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Miss Harriet Brown

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Randolph Hackley, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Harriet Randolph Hackley

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart, by Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1796 - 1863

Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart

Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1796 - 1863 · c. 1822-23

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. 2871792 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-04 18:18 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.