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 “Token of John Adams” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 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.
Percussion Longrifle, by John Settel

Percussion Longrifle

John Settel · ca. 1835–1840

Public domainThe Met
President John Quincy Adams, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

President John Quincy Adams

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Token of John Adams

Token of John Adams

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

Public domainThe Met
Logan, Ohio Owney tag

Logan, Ohio Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Token of John Quincy Adams

Token of John Quincy Adams

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

Public domainThe Met
Boston & Portland P.S. Packet Company Owney tag

Boston & Portland P.S. Packet Company Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam, by Auguste Rodin

Adam

Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Public domainThe Met
Trade token, by Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942

Trade token

Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by James Sharples

John Adams

James Sharples · ca.1796

Public domainThe Met
Omaha, Nebraska Owney tag

Omaha, Nebraska Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Quincy Adams Ward, by Henry Augustus Loop

John Quincy Adams Ward

Henry Augustus Loop · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Rock Island, Illinois Owney tag

Rock Island, Illinois Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · May 9, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Trade token, by Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942 and Kirk Brothers

Trade token

Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942 and Kirk Brothers

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abigail Smith Adams, by James Sharples

Abigail Smith Adams

James Sharples · ca.1796

Public domainThe Met
Trade token

Trade token

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], by John Adams Whipple

[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat]

John Adams Whipple · early 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Trade token

Trade token

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918), by Anders Zorn

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918)

Anders Zorn · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Trade token

Trade token

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Trade token

Trade token

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Tilden Blodgett, by John Quincy Adams Ward

William Tilden Blodgett

John Quincy Adams Ward · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Trade token

Trade token

Artist not stated in the record

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. 798 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2996547 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 21:08 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.