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 “5c Documentary Inland Exchange revenue stamp single on marriage certificate” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:21 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

5c Documentary Inland Exchange revenue stamp single on marriage certificate

5c Documentary Inland Exchange revenue stamp single on marriage certificate

Artist not stated in the record · September 14, 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
5c Documentary Inland Exchange revenue stamp single on marriage license

5c Documentary Inland Exchange revenue stamp single on marriage license

Artist not stated in the record · January 26, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on naturalization certificate

5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on naturalization certificate

Artist not stated in the record · March 23, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on Firemen’s Certificate

5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on Firemen’s Certificate

Artist not stated in the record · January 3, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
5c Documentary Express revenue stamp single on Adams Express Company’s receipt

5c Documentary Express revenue stamp single on Adams Express Company’s receipt

Artist not stated in the record · February 6, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on mail carrier proposal

5c Documentary Certificate revenue stamp on mail carrier proposal

Artist not stated in the record · June 5, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four 5c Documentary Foreign Exchange revenue stamps on indenture document

Four 5c Documentary Foreign Exchange revenue stamps on indenture document

Artist not stated in the record · August 1, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marriage license and certificate for James Trumbo and Catherine Williams

Marriage license and certificate for James Trumbo and Catherine Williams

Artist not stated in the record · October 6, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
6c Documentary Proprietary revenue stamp approved die proof

6c Documentary Proprietary revenue stamp approved die proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
$5,000 Washington Documentary Second Issue Persian Rug revenue stamp proof

$5,000 Washington Documentary Second Issue Persian Rug revenue stamp proof

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
5c New York Match Company revenue stamp single

5c New York Match Company 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1215850 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 23:21 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.