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 “10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:33 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.
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling clock watch with alarm, by Thomas Tompion

Traveling clock watch with alarm

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair-case watch, by Thomas Tompion

Pair-case watch

Thomas Tompion · 1682–83

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate), by James McNeill Whistler

View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

Robert Dunkarton · ca. 1816

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Jay, by Asher Brown Durand

John Jay

Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England

Thomas Rowlandson · January 10, 1818

Public domainThe Met
10c brown Jefferson plate proof single, by Continental Bank Note Company

10c brown Jefferson plate proof single

Continental Bank Note Company · August 2, 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
10c brown Jefferson plate proof single, by American Bank Note Company

10c brown Jefferson plate proof single

American Bank Note Company · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banknote vignette with three putti as a shepherd, a farmer, and a sailor, by Asher Brown Durand

Banknote vignette with three putti as a shepherd, a farmer, and a sailor

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1824–37

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson War Department card plate proof

10c Thomas Jefferson War Department card plate proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banknote vignette showing two men working in a mine, by Asher Brown Durand

Banknote vignette showing two men working in a mine

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1824–37

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson Interior Department card plate proof

10c Thomas Jefferson Interior Department card plate proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

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. 40 matched · 24 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. 463590 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 2026-09-04 01:33 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.