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 “Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 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.
Collection Julien Gréau: verrerie antique, emaillerie et poterie appartenent à M. J. Pierpont Morgan, by Wilhelm Froehner

Collection Julien Gréau: verrerie antique, emaillerie et poterie appartenent à M. J. Pierpont Morgan

Wilhelm Froehner · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend

Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory

Morte d'Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory · 1893

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps

Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall clock, by John Townsend

Tall clock

John Townsend · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Print of Rev. J. H. Hillsman

Print of Rev. J. H. Hillsman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Pembroke Table, by John Townsend

Drop-leaf Pembroke Table

John Townsend · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
Print of Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D., by Unidentified

Print of Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D.

Unidentified · July 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf dining table, by John Townsend

Drop-leaf dining table

John Townsend · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend

Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table, by John Townsend

Card table

John Townsend · ca. 1786

Public domainThe Met
Envelope addressed to Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Townsend, by Unidentified

Envelope addressed to Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Townsend

Unidentified · April 10, 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair

Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Thomas Rowlandson

Untitled

Thomas Rowlandson · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of Lewis Garner

Photographic print of Lewis Garner

Artist not stated in the record · late 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Willa Ann Hadley Townsend

Postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Willa Ann Hadley Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · March 30, 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend

Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Laura Townsend

Cabinet card of Laura Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw

Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 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. 8025 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 4431253 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 2026-08-28 08:01 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.