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 “"Lima Bean Loaf with Cheese Sauce" item of ephemera” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 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.
The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott, by Sir Richard Westmacott

The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
"Lima Bean Loaf with Cheese Sauce" item of ephemera

"Lima Bean Loaf with Cheese Sauce" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · 1859–69

Public domainThe Met
RFD patrons’ names book page 124 with "Mrs. Mullins Wine" item of ephemera

RFD patrons’ names book page 124 with "Mrs. Mullins Wine" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear of Corn, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Ear of Corn, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Spring Tasties" item of ephemera

"Spring Tasties" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Frozen Desserts of Many Kinds" item of ephemera

"Frozen Desserts of Many Kinds" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Autobiography of a Dime" item of ephemera

"Autobiography of a Dime" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Recipe for Sour Cream Mayonnaise" item of ephemera

"Recipe for Sour Cream Mayonnaise" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Homemade Christmas Candies" item of ephemera

"Homemade Christmas Candies" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Valentine Cookies" item of ephemera

"Valentine Cookies" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of flowers, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Basket of flowers, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Tomato Mince Meat" item of ephemera

"Tomato Mince Meat" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quiver of arrows, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Quiver of arrows, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Cousin Ceres and Her Serious Comments on Cooking" item of ephemera

"Cousin Ceres and Her Serious Comments on Cooking" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros., by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1889

Public domainThe Met
"Strawberries! Sweet Strawberries!" item of ephemera

"Strawberries! Sweet Strawberries!" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920

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. 253 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. 7484418 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 06:29 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.