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 S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895” — 48 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:13 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.
A River Glimpse, by Thomas Doughty

A River Glimpse

Thomas Doughty · ca. 1843–50

Public domainThe Met
"Buffalo Bill" Cody, by Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
John Alexander Logan, by Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895

John Alexander Logan

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895 · c. 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Ulysses S. Grant, by Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895

Ulysses S. Grant

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895 · c. 1865-68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Trumbull, by Asher Brown Durand

John Trumbull

Asher Brown Durand · 1833

Public domainThe Met
James Garfield and Family, by Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895

James Garfield and Family

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milton's Comus, by Sir Joseph Noël Paton

Milton's Comus

Sir Joseph Noël Paton · 1842–48

Public domainThe Met
Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell

Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Discorbis huascari Frizzell, 1943

Discorbis huascari Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818–?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820–1894), by Sir Thomas Lawrence

The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818–?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820–1894)

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Dentalina oviedoi Frizzell, 1943

Dentalina oviedoi Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle, by Jehan Aert van Tricht

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle

Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Pseudoglandulina marginuliniformis Frizzell, 1943

Pseudoglandulina marginuliniformis Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagena ? malpasoensis Frizzell, 1943

Lagena ? malpasoensis Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haplophragmoides zaratei Frizzell, 1943

Haplophragmoides zaratei Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haplophragmoides atahuallpai Frizzell, 1943

Haplophragmoides atahuallpai Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robulus ? capac Frizzell, 1943

Robulus ? capac Frizzell, 1943

Artist not stated in the record

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 891066 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 05:13 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.