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 “Adolph Menzel” — 40 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:23 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.

Contribution, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Contribution

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiger, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Tiger

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sharpening Tools in a Village Smithy, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Sharpening Tools in a Village Smithy

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Sermon in the Open Air, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

A Sermon in the Open Air

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Promenader, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

The Promenader

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At Kissingen, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

At Kissingen

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frederick and His Men at Hochkirch, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Frederick and His Men at Hochkirch

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichostomum subduriusculum (Müll. Hal.) M. Menzel

Trichostomum subduriusculum (Müll. Hal.) M. Menzel

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1914 to Jun 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steereobryon elamellosum (Herzog) M. Menzel

Steereobryon elamellosum (Herzog) M. Menzel

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudosymblepharis bartramii Thér. ex E.B. Bartram

Pseudosymblepharis bartramii Thér. ex E.B. Bartram

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chionoloma angustatum (Mitt.) M. Menzel

Chionoloma angustatum (Mitt.) M. Menzel

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulva sp.

Ulva sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1942

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. 21489 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 23:23 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.