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. 23 shown for “Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:11 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.
Coutances Cathedral, by Stanford White

Coutances Cathedral

Stanford White · ca. 1879

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Church of St. Nicholas, Caen, France, by Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906

Sketch of Church of St. Nicholas, Caen, France

Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frame, by Stanford White

Frame

Stanford White · 1870–1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cooper Monument, by Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906

Design for Cooper Monument

Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Hudson River from the Catskills, by Stanford White

View of the Hudson River from the Catskills

Stanford White · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Stanford White, by Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934

Stanford White

Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934 · c. 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of Saint Gaudens's Statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Springfield, Massachusetts, by Stanford White

Sketch of Saint Gaudens's Statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Springfield, Massachusetts

Stanford White · ca. 1887

Public domainThe Met
William Mead, Charles McKim, and Stanford White, by Unidentified Artist

William Mead, Charles McKim, and Stanford White

Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884, carved by 1888

Public domainThe Met
Epimeria macrodonta

Epimeria macrodonta

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles F. McKim, Stanford White, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Charles F. McKim, Stanford White, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Maxilliphimedia longipes

Maxilliphimedia longipes

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciate Virgin (one of a pair)

The Annunciate Virgin (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Polygonum segetum var. verrucosum Stanford

Polygonum segetum var. verrucosum Stanford

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Diana

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–93, cast 1928

Public domainThe Met
Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford

Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Firescreen, by John La Farge

Firescreen

John La Farge · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Epimeria macrodonta

Epimeria macrodonta

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by Robert Nunns

Square Piano

Robert Nunns · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Micromeria douglasii Benth.

Micromeria douglasii Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1906 to 24 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Angel Gabriel (one of a pair)

The Angel Gabriel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Public domainThe Met
Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford

Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1144040 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:11 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.