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. 16 shown for “A. Bodin” — 44 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 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 Latest Fashions, Expressly Designed and Prepared for Le Moniteur de la Mode, by A. Bodin

The Latest Fashions, Expressly Designed and Prepared for Le Moniteur de la Mode

A. Bodin · June 1, 1887

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Journal des dames et demoiselles, by Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892

Fashion Plate from Le Journal des dames et demoiselles

Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jean François Bodin (1776–1829), French civil-servant and historian, by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Jean François Bodin (1776–1829), French civil-servant and historian

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Journal des dames et demoiselles, by Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892

Fashion Plate from Le Journal des dames et demoiselles

Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Commelina kituloensis Faden

Commelina kituloensis Faden

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs

Terracotta architectural plaque with lotus and palmette designs

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode, by Larivière, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from Le Moniteur de la Mode

Larivière, French, active 19th c. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fashion Plate from The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, by Henri Lefevre, French, active 19th c.

Fashion Plate from The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine

Henri Lefevre, French, active 19th c. · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zostera marina L.

Zostera marina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/7/10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zostera marina L.

Zostera marina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/7/10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zostera marina L.

Zostera marina L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/7/10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Callirhoe involucrata (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray var. involucrata

Callirhoe involucrata (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray var. involucrata

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray ex S. Watson

Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray ex S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchosida physocalyx (A. Gray) Fryxell

Rhynchosida physocalyx (A. Gray) Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverchonia arenaria A. Gray

Reverchonia arenaria A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1890

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1765075 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 15:12 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.