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. 20 shown for “Advertisement for H. F. Warren” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 14:05 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 Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1892

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for H. F. Warren

Advertisement for H. F. Warren

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1856-61

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw

Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of William Duguid, by Prince Demah Barnes

Portrait of William Duguid

Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Envelope for letter from H.W. Sewing for Daisy Bates Trust Fund, by Unidentified

Envelope for letter from H.W. Sewing for Daisy Bates Trust Fund

Unidentified · Feb 17, 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H. St. John

Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Camassia teapeae H. St. John

Camassia teapeae H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium piperi H. St. John & F.A. Warren

Hieracium piperi H. St. John & F.A. Warren

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Eriogonum compositum var. pilicaule H. St. John & F.A. Warren

Eriogonum compositum var. pilicaule H. St. John & F.A. Warren

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laban Looking for the Images and Making a Covenant with Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Laban Looking for the Images and Making a Covenant with Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for Sweet Georgia Brown skin bleaching creams, by Sweet Georgia Brown, American

Advertisement for Sweet Georgia Brown skin bleaching creams

Sweet Georgia Brown, American · ca. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series

Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series

Rachel and Bilhah with Dan from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Sacrificing After Making a Covenant with Laban from The Story of Jacob series

Jacob Sacrificing After Making a Covenant with Laban from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
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. 72 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1868901 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 14:05 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.