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. 24 shown for “Samuel Magee Green” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:35 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.
Rising Wind, by Samuel Magee Green

Rising Wind

Samuel Magee Green · 1935–43

Public domainThe Met
Oclemena acuminata (Michx.) Greene

Oclemena acuminata (Michx.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record

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
Cryptantha intermedia (A. Gray) Greene

Cryptantha intermedia (A. Gray) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Melanthium virginicum L.

Melanthium virginicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basin, by Samuel Green

Basin

Samuel Green · 1794–ca. 1834

Public domainThe Met
Camissoniopsis hirtella (Greene) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Camissoniopsis hirtella (Greene) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Organ, by Samuel Green

Chamber Organ

Samuel Green · ca. 1790–96

Public domainThe Met
Euonymus americanus L.

Euonymus americanus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Praying Samuel, by United States Pottery Company

Figure of Praying Samuel

United States Pottery Company · 1852–58

Public domainThe Met
Eupatorium pilosum Walter

Eupatorium pilosum Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Denman, by Edward Greene Malbone

Samuel Denman

Edward Greene Malbone

Public domainThe Met
Solidago odora Aiton

Solidago odora Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer

Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tarenaya houtteana (Schltdl.) Soares Neto & Roalson

Tarenaya houtteana (Schltdl.) Soares Neto & Roalson

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Samuel Denman (Anna Maria Hampton), by Edward Greene Malbone

Mrs. Samuel Denman (Anna Maria Hampton)

Edward Greene Malbone

Public domainThe Met
Helianthus tomentosus Michx.

Helianthus tomentosus Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

Rim fragment of relief chalice with inscription and papyrus plants, associated with 1983.599

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Green Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Ten Years for Having a Copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in His House, by Unidentified Artist

Samuel Green Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Ten Years for Having a Copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in His House

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Young Woman, by Albrecht Dürer

Head of a Young Woman

Albrecht Dürer · 1522

Public domainThe Met
Gardiner Howland and Samuel Howland, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Gardiner Howland and Samuel Howland

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1840

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. 299 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 117863 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-04 10:35 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.