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 “Thomas Day” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 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.
Game Table, by Thomas Day

Game Table

Thomas Day · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Side chair by Thomas Day, by Thomas Day, American, 1801 - 1861

Side chair by Thomas Day

Thomas Day, American, 1801 - 1861 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones

The grammar of ornament

Owen Jones · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Galloway

Joseph Galloway

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1897

Public domainThe Met
Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks, by Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833

Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks

Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee

Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers, by Camille Pissarro

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Public domainThe Met
L'Heure du Midi, from a set of the hours of the day, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

L'Heure du Midi, from a set of the hours of the day

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soprano Recorder in B, by Thomas Coenraet Boekhout

Soprano Recorder in B

Thomas Coenraet Boekhout · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
L'Heure du Matin, from a set of the hours of the day, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

L'Heure du Matin, from a set of the hours of the day

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten

Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten

Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Day, by Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

Portrait of Mrs. Richard Day

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (1903)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eccleston Medal, by Thomas Webb

Eccleston Medal

Thomas Webb · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Le Temps De La Soirée, from a set of the hours of the day, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Temps De La Soirée, from a set of the hours of the day

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Musician and His Daughter, by Thomas de Keyser

A Musician and His Daughter

Thomas de Keyser · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Le Temps de L'Après-dîné, from a set of the hours of the day, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Temps de L'Après-dîné, from a set of the hours of the day

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

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. 655 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 129326 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.