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 “Webster Company” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 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 William Webster

Watch

William Webster · ca. 1720–30

Public domainThe Met
Female Skier, by Webster Company

Female Skier

Webster Company · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quarter repeater watch, by William Webster

Quarter repeater watch

William Webster · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Sharp's Language Drills and Test: Fifth Grade

Sharp's Language Drills and Test: Fifth Grade

Artist not stated in the record · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Repeater watch, by William Webster

Repeater watch

William Webster · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster plate proof single, by National Bank Note Company

15c Webster plate proof single

National Bank Note Company · 1870 - 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Webster, by Thomas Ball

Daniel Webster

Thomas Ball · 1853

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster plate proof single, by Continental Bank Note Company

15c Webster plate proof single

Continental Bank Note Company · July 22, 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] · 1885

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster single, by Continental Bank Note Company

15c Webster single

Continental Bank Note Company · July 22, 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, by Brady, D'Avignon and Company

The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington

Brady, D'Avignon and Company · 1850

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster with Grill single, by National Bank Note Company

15c Webster with Grill single

National Bank Note Company · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, 2nd Base, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes, by Goodwin & Company

Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, 2nd Base, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company · 1888

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster Sample overprint single, by American Bank Note Company

15c Webster Sample overprint single

American Bank Note Company · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes, by Goodwin & Company

Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company · 1888

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster Specimen overprint single, by American Bank Note Company

15c Webster Specimen overprint single

American Bank Note Company · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Clay, by Thomas Ball

Henry Clay

Thomas Ball · 1858

Public domainThe Met
15c Daniel Webster single, by National Bank Note Company

15c Daniel Webster single

National Bank Note Company · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy, by Paullus Schiller

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy

Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
15c Daniel Webster single, by American Bank Note Company

15c Daniel Webster single

American Bank Note Company · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes, by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
15c Webster Sample A overprint single, by American Bank Note Company

15c Webster Sample A overprint single

American Bank Note Company · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card Number 367, Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes, by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Card Number 367, Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Webster, by J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890

Daniel Webster

J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1852

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. 25 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. 68704 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.