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. 20 shown for “Samuel Rogers” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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.
Porringer, by Samuel Vernon

Porringer

Samuel Vernon · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Ginevra, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Ginevra

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Samuel

Figure of Samuel

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

Public domainThe Met
Ginevra (fragment), by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Ginevra (fragment)

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · revised 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Rogers, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Samuel Rogers

Sir Thomas Lawrence · August 16, 1822

Public domainThe Met
Roger B. Taney, by Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906

Roger B. Taney

Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Italy, A Poem, by Samuel Rogers

Italy, A Poem

Samuel Rogers · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Ginevra (first version, unfinished), by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Ginevra (first version, unfinished)

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jamb stove, by Samuel Flower

Jamb stove

Samuel Flower · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) Dufour

Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) Dufour

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Samuel Edwards

Coffeepot

Samuel Edwards · 1745–60

Public domainThe Met
Nephromopsis nivalis (L.) Divakar et al.

Nephromopsis nivalis (L.) Divakar et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1960

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

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II

Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II

Artist not stated in the record · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Samuel McIntire

Armchair

Samuel McIntire · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Congress Voting Independence, by Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817

Congress Voting Independence

Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · c. 1803 (1906 restrike)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Annibale Carracci

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Public domainThe Met
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia

Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–66, remodeled 1769–71

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. 1096 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. 39389 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 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.