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. 18 shown for “Reid Turner” — 48 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:50 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.
Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wrightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller, by Reid Turner

Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wrightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller

Reid Turner · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Striking the Rock, by Abraham Bloemaert

Moses Striking the Rock

Abraham Bloemaert · 1596

Public domainThe Met
Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1949

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
Palafoxia arida B.L. Turner & M.I. Morris var. arida

Palafoxia arida B.L. Turner & M.I. Morris var. arida

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/5/41

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates, by Paul Cézanne

Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates

Paul Cézanne · 1900–1906

Public domainThe Met
Machaeranthera crispa (Brandegee) B.L. Turner & D.B. Horne

Machaeranthera crispa (Brandegee) B.L. Turner & D.B. Horne

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cider, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Cider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

Public domainThe Met
Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Bajacalia moranii B.L. Turner

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkley

Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii (DC.) B.L. Turner & T.M. Barkley

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porophyllum gracile Benth.

Porophyllum gracile Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agave subsimplex Trel.

Agave subsimplex Trel.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait, by James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889

James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait

James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889 · c. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whitelaw Reid, by Sir Leslie Mathew Ward, 1851 - 1922

Whitelaw Reid

Sir Leslie Mathew Ward, 1851 - 1922 · 1902

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 19502 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 2026-09-02 23:50 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.