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. 20 shown for “Worthington Whittredge” — 52 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.
Evening in the Woods, by Worthington Whittredge

Evening in the Woods

Worthington Whittredge · 1876

Public domainThe Met
The Birches of the Catskills, by Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910

The Birches of the Catskills

Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Worthington Whittredge, by Emanuel Leutze

Worthington Whittredge

Emanuel Leutze · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Seconnet Point, Rhode Island, by Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910

Seconnet Point, Rhode Island

Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trout Pool, by Worthington Whittredge

The Trout Pool

Worthington Whittredge · 1870

Public domainThe Met
The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome, by Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910

The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome

Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Camp Meeting, by Worthington Whittredge

The Camp Meeting

Worthington Whittredge · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Westphalian Cottage, by Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910

Interior of a Westphalian Cottage

Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brook in the Woods, by Worthington Whittredge

The Brook in the Woods

Worthington Whittredge · ca. 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
Noon in the Orchard, by Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910

Noon in the Orchard

Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch, by Duncan Phyfe

Couch

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Albert Gallatin, by Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 22 May 1820 - 25 Feb 1910

Albert Gallatin

Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 22 May 1820 - 25 Feb 1910 · after 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
John Whitridge, by William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874

John Whitridge

William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · modeled 1873-1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taboret, by Duncan Phyfe

Taboret

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
E. C. Worthington, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

E. C. Worthington

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Window Seat, by Duncan Phyfe

Window Seat

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Taboret, by Duncan Phyfe

Taboret

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Tivoli, by William Stanley Haseltine

Tivoli

William Stanley Haseltine · 1858

Public domainThe Met
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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. 494 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:54 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.