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. 19 shown for “2c Andrew Jackson War Department special printing single” — 49 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:13 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 Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson War Department special printing single

2c Andrew Jackson War Department special printing single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson War Department single

2c Andrew Jackson War Department single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson special printing single, by Continental Bank Note Company

2c Andrew Jackson special printing single

Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1807, Friedland, by Ernest Meissonier

1807, Friedland

Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson State Department special printing single

2c Andrew Jackson State Department special printing single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department special printing single

2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department special printing single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson Interior Department special printing single

2c Andrew Jackson Interior Department special printing single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
2c Andrew Jackson Executive special printing single

2c Andrew Jackson Executive special printing single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Andrew Jackson plate proof single

2c Andrew Jackson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Jackson single, by American Bank Note Company

2c Jackson single

American Bank Note Company · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Andrew Jackson War Department single

2c Andrew Jackson War Department single

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department single

2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
2c Andrew Jackson Navy Department single

2c Andrew Jackson Navy Department single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 573339 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 2026-08-31 23:13 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.