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. 21 shown for “Tom Story” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:43 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.
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest, by James Gillray

Tom Paine's Nightly Pest

James Gillray · December 10, 1792

Public domainThe Met
Story Little Gee Bee, by Tom Story

Story Little Gee Bee

Tom Story · 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Five Members of the Wild Bunch?], by Unknown

[Five Members of the Wild Bunch?]

Unknown · ca. 1892

Public domainThe Met
Tom Loftin Johnson, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

Tom Loftin Johnson

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A partly naked woman seated by a stream; page 32 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

A partly naked woman seated by a stream; page 32 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1812–20

Public domainThe Met
Tom Loftin Johnson, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

Tom Loftin Johnson

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber with Scabbard and Belt Hook (清 腰刀)

Saber with Scabbard and Belt Hook (清 腰刀)

Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tom Sayers, by George Newbold, active 1860s

Tom Sayers

George Newbold, active 1860s · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Godina's Rout:–or– Peeping-Tom spying out Pope Joan, vide Fashionable Modesty, by James Gillray

Lady Godina's Rout:–or– Peeping-Tom spying out Pope Joan, vide Fashionable Modesty

James Gillray · March 12, 1796

Public domainThe Met
Tom Molineaux, by Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814

Tom Molineaux

Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Songs, Sketch of the Life of Blind Tom

Songs, Sketch of the Life of Blind Tom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job Reproved by His Friends, by James Barry

Job Reproved by His Friends

James Barry · dated 1777; issued ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Tom Molineaux, by John Young, 1755 - 1825

Tom Molineaux

John Young, 1755 - 1825 · c. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Conversion of Polemon, by James Barry

The Conversion of Polemon

James Barry · 1778–90

Public domainThe Met
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Broadside, by Seer, A. S.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Broadside

Seer, A. S.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Close of the Battle or the Champion Triumphant, by Unidentified

The Close of the Battle or the Champion Triumphant

Unidentified · October 3, 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 9002 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 21:43 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.