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 “William Guy Wall” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 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.
Forest Grove, by William Guy Wall

Forest Grove

William Guy Wall

Public domainThe Met
City Hall, by John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850

City Hall

John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850 · 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bay of New York and Governors Island Taken from Brooklyn Heights, by William Guy Wall

The Bay of New York and Governors Island Taken from Brooklyn Heights

William Guy Wall · 1820–25

Public domainThe Met
Ticonderoga, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

Ticonderoga

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bay of New York Looking to the Narrows and Staten Island, Taken from Brooklyn Heights, by William Guy Wall

The Bay of New York Looking to the Narrows and Staten Island, Taken from Brooklyn Heights

William Guy Wall · 1820–25

Public domainThe Met
View near Fort Montgomery (no. 18, Hudson River portfolio), by John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850

View near Fort Montgomery (no. 18, Hudson River portfolio)

John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850 · ca. 1820-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bay of New York Taken from Brooklyn Heights, by William Guy Wall

The Bay of New York Taken from Brooklyn Heights

William Guy Wall · 1820–25

Public domainThe Met
New York, from Governor's Island, 1820, by I. Hill

New York, from Governor's Island, 1820

I. Hill · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New York from Weehawk, by William Guy Wall

New York from Weehawk

William Guy Wall · ca. 1820–23

Public domainThe Met
Henry Guy, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Henry Guy

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New York from the Heights near Brooklyn, by William Guy Wall

New York from the Heights near Brooklyn

William Guy Wall · ca. 1820–23

Public domainThe Met
William Howard Taft, Michinori S. Nagasaki, Guy L. Edie, William Kelly, Tasker Bliss, Clarence Edwards, by William Dinwiddie, 23 Aug 1867 - 17 Jun 1934

William Howard Taft, Michinori S. Nagasaki, Guy L. Edie, William Kelly, Tasker Bliss, Clarence Edwards

William Dinwiddie, 23 Aug 1867 - 17 Jun 1934 · July 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Weehawken from Turtle Grove, by William James Bennett

Weehawken from Turtle Grove

William James Bennett · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb.

Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1904 to 31 May 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
On a Square in a Spanish Town, by Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892

On a Square in a Spanish Town

Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hudson River Portfolio, by William Guy Wall

The Hudson River Portfolio

William Guy Wall · 1821–25

Public domainThe Met
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room, by Seymour Joseph Guy

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room

Seymour Joseph Guy · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Adiantum concinnum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Adiantum concinnum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis tenella (Brid.) A. Jaeger

Philonotis tenella (Brid.) A. Jaeger

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Dubautia carrii B.G. Baldwin & Friar

Dubautia carrii B.G. Baldwin & Friar

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1992

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. 1037 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. 292246 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-27 05:13 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.