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 “Samuel Herbert” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:20 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.
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Herbert Hoover, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Herbert Hoover

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish cross, by Samuel Herbert

Dish cross

Samuel Herbert · 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Edwin Herbert Land, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Edwin Herbert Land

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish cross, by Samuel Herbert

Dish cross

Samuel Herbert · 1764–65

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Warren Holland, Aged Two Years, by M. W. Hopkins, born Harwinton, CT 1789-died Williamsburgh, OH 1844

Samuel Warren Holland, Aged Two Years

M. W. Hopkins, born Harwinton, CT 1789-died Williamsburgh, OH 1844 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skewer, by Samuel Herbert

Skewer

Samuel Herbert · 1760–61

Public domainThe Met
Counter Top Cigar Store Figure, by Samuel Anderson Robb, born New York City 1851-died New York City 1928

Counter Top Cigar Store Figure

Samuel Anderson Robb, born New York City 1851-died New York City 1928 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406, by Samuel Colt

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Uncle Sam Recruiting Figure, by Unidentified

Uncle Sam Recruiting Figure

Unidentified · ca. 1916-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabrina, by Samuel Palmer

Sabrina

Samuel Palmer · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke, by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Public domainThe Met
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse), by Samuel F. B. Morse

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

Samuel F. B. Morse · ca. 1836–37

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox, by Samuel Pemberton

Snuffbox

Samuel Pemberton · 1803

Public domainThe Met
Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017, by Samuel Colt

Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017

Samuel Colt · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Box, by Samuel Pemberton

Box

Samuel Pemberton · 1796–97

Public domainThe Met
Vinaigrette, by Samuel Pemberton

Vinaigrette

Samuel Pemberton · ca. 1800

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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 42505 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 01:20 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.