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. 14 shown for “Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian” — 42 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:50 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.
Death, by Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian

Death

Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Along the Stream, by Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian

Along the Stream

Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for embroidery or tapestry, by Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885

Design for embroidery or tapestry

Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edouard Blacque Bey and others

Edouard Blacque Bey and others

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus strigosus L.

Cyperus strigosus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.

Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex hitchcockiana Dewey

Carex hitchcockiana Dewey

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex communis L.H. Bailey var. communis

Carex communis L.H. Bailey var. communis

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.

Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1953

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 613024 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 17:50 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.