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. 15 shown for “Appraisal of a plantation owned by Elisha King listing 43 enslaved persons” — 44 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:08 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 Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Appraisal of a plantation owned by Elisha King listing 43 enslaved persons

Appraisal of a plantation owned by Elisha King listing 43 enslaved persons

Artist not stated in the record · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
List of enslaved persons and yards of cloth ordered for Rouzee family plantation

List of enslaved persons and yards of cloth ordered for Rouzee family plantation

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Account of hires of enslaved persons belonging to Apphia Rouzzee for 1812

Account of hires of enslaved persons belonging to Apphia Rouzzee for 1812

Artist not stated in the record · 1812-1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1812

List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1812

Artist not stated in the record · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama

Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama

Artist not stated in the record · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1813

List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1813

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · September 27, 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
List of bonds due for the hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

List of bonds due for the hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
List of bonds taken for hire of enslaved persons owned by Richard Rouzee

List of bonds taken for hire of enslaved persons owned by Richard Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
List of bonds for the hire of enslaved persons given to Evan Brown to collect

List of bonds for the hire of enslaved persons given to Evan Brown to collect

Artist not stated in the record · 1794 - 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 1, 1828

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4045211 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 2026-09-07 08:08 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.