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. 13 shown for “Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1808 - c. 1890” — 41 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:35 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
William Hull, by Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1808 - c. 1890

William Hull

Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1808 - c. 1890 · c. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of poems by Grace Greenwood, by Hezekiah Wright Smith, 1828 - ?

Book of poems by Grace Greenwood

Hezekiah Wright Smith, 1828 - ? · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott

Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wulfenia amherstiana Benth.

Wulfenia amherstiana Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamium album L.

Lamium album L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polystichum prescottianum (Wall. ex Mett.) T. Moore

Polystichum prescottianum (Wall. ex Mett.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Ann Walker Bell, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Mary Ann Walker Bell

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Micrandra glabra (R.E. Schult.) R.E. Schult.

Micrandra glabra (R.E. Schult.) R.E. Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer Moving Forward, Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward, by Edgar Degas, French, b. Paris, 1834–1917

Dancer Moving Forward, Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward

Edgar Degas, French, b. Paris, 1834–1917 · (c. 1882-1895)/(cast 1919-1932)

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1482617 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-08 06:35 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.