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. 18 shown for “Samuel Pratt” — 63 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 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.
The American School, by Matthew Pratt

The American School

Matthew Pratt · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Side chair, by Samuel Pratt

Side chair

Samuel Pratt · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait, by Matthew Pratt, 23 Sep 1734 - 9 Jan 1805

Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait

Matthew Pratt, 23 Sep 1734 - 9 Jan 1805 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by Samuel Brunn

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

Samuel Brunn · hallmarked for 1800–1801

Public domainThe Met
Richard Henry Pratt, by John N. Choate, 1848 - 1902

Richard Henry Pratt

John N. Choate, 1848 - 1902 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
John Pratt, by A. C. Nichols

John Pratt

A. C. Nichols · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pistol Shield

Pistol Shield

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525 and later

Public domainThe Met
Ischnura verticalis

Ischnura verticalis

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Gauntlets for a Child, by Lucio Piccinino

Pair of Gauntlets for a Child

Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
Callirhoe involucrata (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray var. involucrata

Callirhoe involucrata (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray var. involucrata

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet with Falling Buffe, by Pompeo della Cesa

Close Helmet with Falling Buffe

Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
Coreopsis grandiflora var. inclinata J.R. Allison

Coreopsis grandiflora var. inclinata J.R. Allison

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield

Shield

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Reinforcing Plates of Armor for the Tilt

Reinforcing Plates of Armor for the Tilt

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1551

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Gauntlets

Pair of Gauntlets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
Reinforcing Breastplate

Reinforcing Breastplate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–30

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 2 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. 26284 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 2026-09-02 22:40 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.