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 Morris Smith” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 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.
Camp of Captain Hoff, Rear View, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by William Morris Smith

Camp of Captain Hoff, Rear View, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

William Morris Smith · July 1865

Public domainThe Met
Members of the Press After the Ceremonies

Members of the Press After the Ceremonies

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Loughton Smith, by Archibald Robertson

William Loughton Smith

Archibald Robertson · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
Montage of American Theatrical Figures, by Unidentified Artist

Montage of American Theatrical Figures

Unidentified Artist · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pink and Rose, by William Morris

Pink and Rose

William Morris · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907

William Morris Hunt

Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907 · 1886-87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork fruit basket, by American China Manufactory

Openwork fruit basket

American China Manufactory · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900

William Morris Hunt

Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled vase, by Columbian Art Pottery (Morris and Willmore)

Two-handled vase

Columbian Art Pottery (Morris and Willmore) · 1893–1900

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Meredith, by Unidentified Artist

William Morris Meredith

Unidentified Artist · c. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flora, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Flora

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896

William Morris Hunt

James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of William Duguid, by Prince Demah Barnes

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Captain Morris, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Captain Morris

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Backgammon Players, by Philip Webb

The Backgammon Players

Philip Webb · 1861

Public domainThe Met
William H. Morris

William H. Morris

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair, by Christopher Dresser

Chair

Christopher Dresser · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of William H. Morris

Tintype of William H. Morris

Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Elizabeth Fritz Morris, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mrs. Elizabeth Fritz Morris

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by William De Morgan

Charger

William De Morgan · 1882–88

Public domainThe Met
Capt. Gilbert Morris, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Capt. Gilbert Morris

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jane Morris, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Jane Morris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Plantago erecta Morris

Plantago erecta Morris

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1912

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. 1499 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 392890 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-06 06:33 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.