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. 19 shown for “Stowe, Harriet Beecher” — 49 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Southworth and Hawes

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Southworth and Hawes · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860 · c. 1850-60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abolition Meeting Held at Willis's Rooms in Honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by William Henry Fisk

Abolition Meeting Held at Willis's Rooms in Honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe

William Henry Fisk · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Francis Holl, 1815 - 1884

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Francis Holl, 1815 - 1884 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Dora Wheeler Keith, 1857 - 1940

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dora Wheeler Keith, 1857 - 1940 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
En Angleterre: Pauvre Jenny!, from "Le Journal Illustré," no. 55, by Henry Linton

En Angleterre: Pauvre Jenny!, from "Le Journal Illustré," no. 55

Henry Linton · February 26–March 5, 1865

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. James Thomas Fields (Annie Adams), by Southworth and Hawes

Mrs. James Thomas Fields (Annie Adams)

Southworth and Hawes · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by J. Jones

Harriet Beecher Stowe

J. Jones · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Unidentified Artist

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unidentified Artist · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863? · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Unidentified Artist

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Unidentified Artist

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3563 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.