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 “Album Page with Cut-Paper Decoration” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:49 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.
Album Page with Cut-Paper Decoration

Album Page with Cut-Paper Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–50

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of Miss Allen

Tintype portrait of Miss Allen

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of Col. C. W. Folsom

Tintype portrait of Col. C. W. Folsom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson

Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints, by Gideon Saint

Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints

Gideon Saint · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Albumen portrait of Charlotte S. Poulton mounted on paper

Albumen portrait of Charlotte S. Poulton mounted on paper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Albumen portrait of Fanny Seward mounted on paper

Albumen portrait of Fanny Seward mounted on paper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
cut corner with MPO postal marking on album page

cut corner with MPO postal marking on album page

Artist not stated in the record · August 1, 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées], by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées]

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · 1771, 1764

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Calligraphies Including Poetry and Prophetic Traditions (Hadith), by Shaikh Hamdullah ibn Mustafa Dede

Album of Calligraphies Including Poetry and Prophetic Traditions (Hadith)

Shaikh Hamdullah ibn Mustafa Dede · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox

Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing, by Konoe Nobutada

Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing

Konoe Nobutada · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
cut corner with two cancels on album page

cut corner with two cancels on album page

Artist not stated in the record · October 19, 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album Page with Decoupe Vase of Flowers, Insects, and Birds, by Muhammad Hasan

Album Page with Decoupe Vase of Flowers, Insects, and Birds

Muhammad Hasan · 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45

Public domainThe Met
Polish FPO 141 cut corner on album page

Polish FPO 141 cut corner on album page

Artist not stated in the record · November 6, 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Mouse in Deep Blue Glass

Figure of a Mouse in Deep Blue Glass

Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

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. 285 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3630 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:49 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.