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. 12 shown for “Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:33 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.
Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son

Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son, London, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son, London

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1838–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tradecard, Crace and Son

Tradecard, Crace and Son

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Exterior, Frederick Crace and Son Establishment, 14 Wigmore Street, London, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Exterior, Frederick Crace and Son Establishment, 14 Wigmore Street, London

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1827–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Rocaille Ornament, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Rocaille Ornament

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca.1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Facade of Frederick Crace's Office, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Facade of Frederick Crace's Office

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter from John Nash to Frederick Crace regarding Brighton Pavilion, by John Nash, 1752 – 1835

Letter from John Nash to Frederick Crace regarding Brighton Pavilion

John Nash, 1752 – 1835 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paneled Wall, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Paneled Wall

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Invitation to an Opening at 14 Wigmore Street, 1839, by Crace & Son, British, 1768 – 1899

Invitation to an Opening at 14 Wigmore Street, 1839

Crace & Son, British, 1768 – 1899 · ca. 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side wall elevation, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Side wall elevation

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Elevation with Marbled Niche, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Elevation with Marbled Niche

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One end of an Octagonal Room in Gothic style, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

One end of an Octagonal Room in Gothic style

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1499333 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 11:33 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.