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. 18 shown for “Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back” — 46 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:51 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.
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back

Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Albert E. Roberts's 1868 School Seat Patent Model

Albert E. Roberts's 1868 School Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

Public domainThe Met
John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Central Asian Figure

Head of a Central Asian Figure

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Milan C. Stebbin and Edwin J. Piper's 1873 School Desk Patent Model

Milan C. Stebbin and Edwin J. Piper's 1873 School Desk Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Henry G. Sellman's 1871 Improved Frame for School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Henry G. Sellman's 1871 Improved Frame for School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unknown inventor/patentee 1860-1915 of School Desk and Seat Model, by unknown

Unknown inventor/patentee 1860-1915 of School Desk and Seat Model

unknown · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Herbert L. Andrews' 1868 School Desk Patent Model Improvement

Herbert L. Andrews' 1868 School Desk Patent Model Improvement

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David G. Venable's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

David G. Venable's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles J. Higgins's 1873 School Desk Patent Model Leg Support

Charles J. Higgins's 1873 School Desk Patent Model Leg Support

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John L. Riter's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

John L. Riter's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac Whitbeck's 1878 School Desk Patent Model (desktop missing leg support)

Isaac Whitbeck's 1878 School Desk Patent Model (desktop missing leg support)

Artist not stated in the record · 1878

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2601840 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 01:51 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.