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. 24 shown for “8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:20 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 Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Virgin and Child, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Standing Virgin and Child

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
2c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

2c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
4c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

4c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
10c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

10c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
6c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

6c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
3c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint single

3c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical imprint 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
9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

9c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bernardino of Siena, by Fulvio Signorini

Saint Bernardino of Siena

Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical card plate proof

8c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical card plate proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Siena, by Fulvio Signorini

Saint Catherine of Siena

Fulvio Signorini · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
4c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

4c Statue of Freedom Newspaper and Periodical single

Artist not stated in the record · January 1, 1875

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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3207295 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 23:20 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.