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. 24 shown for “The Story of Samuel” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:13 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.
The Story of Samuel

The Story of Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Clay Williams, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Samuel Clay Williams

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Bernard (1651–1739), by Guillaume Coustou the Elder

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)

Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Public domainThe Met
Bebbia juncea var. aspera Greene

Bebbia juncea var. aspera Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Lipton, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Thomas Lipton

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners, by Master of the Story of Joseph

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners

Master of the Story of Joseph

Public domainThe Met
Wilbert Robinson, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Wilbert Robinson

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Libyan Sibyl, by William Wetmore Story

The Libyan Sibyl

William Wetmore Story · 1860; carved 1861

Public domainThe Met
Elsa Einstein, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Elsa Einstein

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
William Curtis Bok, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

William Curtis Bok

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
Maxim Litvinov, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Maxim Litvinov

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cleopatra, by William Wetmore Story

Cleopatra

William Wetmore Story · 1858, carved 1869

Public domainThe Met
William Hartman Woodin, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

William Hartman Woodin

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medea, by William Wetmore Story

Medea

William Wetmore Story · 1865; carved 1868

Public domainThe Met
George V, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

George V

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Ludwig Mueller, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Ludwig Mueller

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · c. 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Public domainThe Met
George N. Peek, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

George N. Peek

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
Neville Chamberlain, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Neville Chamberlain

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 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. 8451 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2994834 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 06:13 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.