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 “A Vocal Concert” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:22 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 Concert from a set of Tapestries "After the Indian Manner", by John Vanderbank

The Concert from a set of Tapestries "After the Indian Manner"

John Vanderbank · After 1690

Public domainThe Met
A Vocal Concert

A Vocal Concert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sō Sām Sāi

Sō Sām Sāi

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A Vocal Concert

A Vocal Concert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Concert, by Louis Licherie de Beurie

A Concert

Louis Licherie de Beurie · ca. 1679

Public domainThe Met
Ev'rybody ought to know how to do the tickle toe lyric by Otto Harbach ; music by Louis A. Hirsch, by Hirsch, Louis A (Louis Achille) 1881-1924

Ev'rybody ought to know how to do the tickle toe lyric by Otto Harbach ; music by Louis A. Hirsch

Hirsch, Louis A (Louis Achille) 1881-1924 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vocal Concert, from "Metamorphoses of the Day", by J. J. Grandville

Vocal Concert, from "Metamorphoses of the Day"

J. J. Grandville · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Emma Azalia Hackley

Photographic postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Emma Azalia Hackley

Artist not stated in the record · November 4, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Concert, by Antoine Jean Duclos

The Concert

Antoine Jean Duclos · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Program from a concert featuring Roland Hayes

Program from a concert featuring Roland Hayes

Artist not stated in the record · 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Concert, by Antoine Jean Duclos

Le Concert

Antoine Jean Duclos · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Interior of the New Concert Hall, Venice

Interior of the New Concert Hall, Venice

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cat Concert, by Jacques Dassonville

Cat Concert

Jacques Dassonville · ca. 1640–70

Public domainThe Met
Aeroplane duet Kitty, Donald lyric by Grant Stewart ; music by Henry Berény, by Berény, Henri 1871-1932

Aeroplane duet Kitty, Donald lyric by Grant Stewart ; music by Henry Berény

Berény, Henri 1871-1932 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Concert champêtre, by Girolamo Romanino

Concert champêtre

Girolamo Romanino · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Coupe et Profil de la Salle de Concert pris sur la longueur, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Coupe et Profil de la Salle de Concert pris sur la longueur

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Concert Champêtre, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Concert Champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1734

Public domainThe Met
Plan d'une Salle de Concert, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Plan d'une Salle de Concert

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Musical Party, by Gabriël Metsu

A Musical Party

Gabriël Metsu · 1659

Public domainThe Met
Façade de la Salle de Concert, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Façade de la Salle de Concert

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cavalry Engagement (recto); Concert of Angels (verso), by Francesco Allegrini

Cavalry Engagement (recto); Concert of Angels (verso)

Francesco Allegrini · 1624–63

Public domainThe Met
Black velvet skirt worn by Marian Anderson for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert, by Unidentified

Black velvet skirt worn by Marian Anderson for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert

Unidentified · 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Russian Concert (Le Concert Russien), by René Gaillard

The Russian Concert (Le Concert Russien)

René Gaillard · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Jenny Lind Concert Ticket, October 18, 1850

Jenny Lind Concert Ticket, October 18, 1850

Artist not stated in the record · 1850

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. 247 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1765493 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 16:22 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.