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. 15 shown for “Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938” — 43 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 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.
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Arlent Edwards, by Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938

Samuel Arlent Edwards

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Jefferson, by Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938

Joseph Jefferson

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · c. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Maude Adams, by Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938

Maude Adams

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Jefferson, by Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938

Joseph Jefferson

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · c. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ethel Barrymore, by Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938

Ethel Barrymore

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Edward Pickett, by Unidentified Artist

George Edward Pickett

Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Hubbard and Edward King, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Samuel Hubbard and Edward King

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulysses S. Grant and Staff, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant, by Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Ryan Curtis, by Unidentified Artist

Samuel Ryan Curtis

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Ryan Curtis, by E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901

Samuel Ryan Curtis

E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel M. Horton, by Barr & Young, active 1860s

Samuel M. Horton

Barr & Young, active 1860s · n.d.a.

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 247908 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.