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. 22 shown for “Thomas Thompson, Jr.” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:55 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.
Watch, by Thomas Thompson, Jr.

Watch

Thomas Thompson, Jr. · ca. 1759

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Weston Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Weston Thompson

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, by Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Spring

Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

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
Dalea greggii A. Gray

Dalea greggii A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/3/28

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Artist not stated in the record · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken, by Robert Havell Jr.

View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken

Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Ewing Jr., by Addis & Noel's

Thomas Ewing Jr.

Addis & Noel's · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Rose, by Thomas Anshutz

A Rose

Thomas Anshutz · 1907

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Mendenhall, Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Mendenhall, Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Titan's Goblet, by Thomas Cole

The Titan's Goblet

Thomas Cole · 1833

Public domainThe Met
The Tammany King-dom/ The Tammany Ring-dom, by Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902

The Tammany King-dom/ The Tammany Ring-dom

Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · October 29, 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Thomas J. Wheatley

Vase

Thomas J. Wheatley · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Newton, Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Newton, Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The U. S. Ship Franklin, with a View of the Bay of New York, by Thomas Thompson

The U. S. Ship Franklin, with a View of the Bay of New York

Thomas Thompson · 1820s or 1830s

Public domainThe Met
Where there is an Evil, by Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902

Where there is an Evil

Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · November 8, 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Queen Victoria, by Thomas Sully

Queen Victoria

Thomas Sully · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Butler, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Thomas Butler

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Unrecorded Edgefield District potter

Untitled

Unrecorded Edgefield District potter · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion, by Thomas Tompion

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80

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. 878 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. 269687 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:55 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.