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. 12 shown for “2 ounce Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp single” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:57 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.
2 ounce Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp single

2 ounce Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
4 ounce Tobacco Strips taxpaid revenue stamp single

4 ounce Tobacco Strips taxpaid revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
10 pounds Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp proof single

10 pounds Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp proof single

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
200 Cigars taxpaid revenue stamp proof sheet of five

200 Cigars taxpaid revenue stamp proof sheet of five

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff revenue stamps singles

Snuff revenue stamps singles

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
$200 Documentary Internal Revenue revenue stamp single

$200 Documentary Internal Revenue revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1 ounce Manufactured Tobacco revenue stamp made of foil

1 ounce Manufactured Tobacco revenue stamp made of foil

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
$20 Documentary Conveyance revenue stamp single

$20 Documentary Conveyance revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Documentary Third Issue revenue stamp single

2c Documentary Third Issue revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875-1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
$50 Documentary Internal Revenue revenue stamp single

$50 Documentary Internal Revenue revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1 ounce Manufactured Tobacco revenue stamp made of foil

1 ounce Manufactured Tobacco revenue stamp made of foil

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
$2 Documentary Third Issue revenue stamp single

$2 Documentary Third Issue revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1046822 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 19:57 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.