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. 11 shown for ““Shepherd” looking up dressed in light green jacket, white furry vest, blue pants, leather bag” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 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.
“Shepherd” looking up dressed in light green jacket, white furry vest, blue pants, leather bag

“Shepherd” looking up dressed in light green jacket, white furry vest, blue pants, leather bag

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden

Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves), by George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804

Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves)

George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804 · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit of Islam uniform, by Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933

Fruit of Islam uniform

Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe, by Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015

17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe

Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobby card for The Duke Is Tops

Lobby card for The Duke Is Tops

Artist not stated in the record · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans, by Charles Paxson, American

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans

Charles Paxson, American · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume vest by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, by Bob Mackie, American, born 1940

Costume vest by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues

Bob Mackie, American, born 1940 · 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1968 Olympic warm-up suit pants worn by Tommie Smith

1968 Olympic warm-up suit pants worn by Tommie Smith

Artist not stated in the record · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of a seven year-old named Thomas

Photograph of a seven year-old named Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform pants owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Uniform pants owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7469338 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 05:21 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.