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. 23 shown for “William H. Slocum” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:37 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Letter to "L.C. Handy, Esq." from William H. Slocum, by William H. Slocum

Letter to "L.C. Handy, Esq." from William H. Slocum

William H. Slocum · September 20, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hippopotamus ("William")

Hippopotamus ("William")

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Letter to L.C. Handy from William H. Slocum, by William H. Slocum

Letter to L.C. Handy from William H. Slocum

William H. Slocum · May 2, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · June 14, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France], by M. Leon

[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]

M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · April 30, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole, by William F. Shaw

Girandole

William F. Shaw · after 1852

Public domainThe Met
Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · May 13, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Carte-de-Visite Album of Prominent Personages], by Mayer & Pierson

[Carte-de-Visite Album of Prominent Personages]

Mayer & Pierson · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Sherman and His Generals, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Sherman and His Generals

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (one of a pair), by I H

Vase with cover (one of a pair)

I H · 1675–76

Public domainThe Met
Grant and His Generals, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Century Vase, by Karl L. H. Müller

Century Vase

Karl L. H. Müller · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Agnes and Slocum Howland

Carte-de-visite portrait of Agnes and Slocum Howland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

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

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

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

Public domainThe Met
General Henry Warner Slocum, by Unidentified Artist

General Henry Warner Slocum

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console from the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt House, by Herter Brothers

Console from the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt House

Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Public domainThe Met
Grant and His Generals, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal from the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt House, by Herter Brothers

Pedestal from the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt House

Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Slocum, by Unidentified Artist

Henry W. Slocum

Unidentified Artist · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Warner Slocum, by Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899

Henry Warner Slocum

Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899 · c. 1862

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. 8128 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1120395 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 13:37 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.