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. 19 shown for “Samuel L. Buck” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:04 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5, by Goupil et Cie

Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5

Goupil et Cie · 1876–1881

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Bernard (1651–1739), by Guillaume Coustou the Elder

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)

Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Samuel L. Buck

Samuel L. Buck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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
Pearl S. Buck, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Pearl S. Buck

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Samuel

Figure of Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1075–1100

Public domainThe Met
Tankard, by Samuel Alexander

Tankard

Samuel Alexander · ca. 1796

Public domainThe Met
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940, by Samuel Colt

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940

Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland, by Samuel Buck

Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland

Samuel Buck · 1728

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Rembrandt Peale

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale · ca. 1846

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. 1117 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. 1316612 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:04 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.