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. 20 shown for “Richard Henry Park” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:41 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.
Edgar Allan Poe Memorial, by Richard Henry Park

Edgar Allan Poe Memorial

Richard Henry Park · 1882–84; carved 1884

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Head of a Young Girl, possibly "Early Sorrow"), by Richard Henry Park, born New York City 1832-died Battle Creek, MI 1902

Untitled (Head of a Young Girl, possibly "Early Sorrow")

Richard Henry Park, born New York City 1832-died Battle Creek, MI 1902 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Yellowstone Geyser, by Richard Norris Brooke, born Warrenton, VA 1847-died Warrenton, VA 1920

Yellowstone Geyser

Richard Norris Brooke, born Warrenton, VA 1847-died Warrenton, VA 1920 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Division Viol, by Richard Meares

Division Viol

Richard Meares · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Journal for a trip to Yellowstone National Park written by Richard T. Jones

Journal for a trip to Yellowstone National Park written by Richard T. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, by John Hoppner

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer

John Hoppner

Public domainThe Met
Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696), by Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696)

Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

Public domainThe Met
Columbina passerina

Columbina passerina

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Organ Rehearsal, by Henry Lerolle

The Organ Rehearsal

Henry Lerolle · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roadside Halt, by Richard Parkes Bonington

Roadside Halt

Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826

Public domainThe Met
View near Rouen, by Richard Parkes Bonington

View near Rouen

Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Center table, by John Henry Belter

Center table

John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Lepidocolaptes affinis

Lepidocolaptes affinis

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Thripadectes virgaticeps

Thripadectes virgaticeps

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richard Morris Hunt, by Karl Theodore Bitter

Richard Morris Hunt

Karl Theodore Bitter · 1891, cast 1892

Public domainThe Met
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
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. 1617 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 307505 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-06 20:41 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.