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 “Barbour, Edmund D.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:22 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.
Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet

Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Barbour Calculating Machine Model, by Barbour, Edmund D.

Barbour Calculating Machine Model

Barbour, Edmund D. · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with design of coins

Snuff bottle with design of coins

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Barbour Calculating Machine Model, by Barbour, Edmund D.

Barbour Calculating Machine Model

Barbour, Edmund D. · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Barbour Calculating Machine, by Barbour, Edmund D.

Barbour Calculating Machine

Barbour, Edmund D. · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lintel block from the false door of Mery's chapel

Lintel block from the false door of Mery's chapel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2520 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pilosella caespitosa (Dumort.) P. D. Sell & C. West

Pilosella caespitosa (Dumort.) P. D. Sell & C. West

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Incense Box

Covered Incense Box

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/6/97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Visit to Rome in 1764, by Franz Edmund Weirotter

A Visit to Rome in 1764

Franz Edmund Weirotter · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis grandis Small

Oxalis grandis Small

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/6/97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Kalmia latifolia L.

Kalmia latifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sceptre

Sceptre

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Eupatorium leucolepis (DC.) Torr. & A. Gray

Eupatorium leucolepis (DC.) Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt", by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · ca. 1824–26

Public domainThe Met
Leandra secunda (D. Don) Cogn.

Leandra secunda (D. Don) Cogn.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories

Samuel Colt · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Miconia thyrsiflora (D. Don) Naudin

Miconia thyrsiflora (D. Don) Naudin

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headdress Frontlet

Headdress Frontlet

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
Microtus ochrogaster ochrogaster

Microtus ochrogaster ochrogaster

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hinged Snuff Bottles

Hinged Snuff Bottles

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Microtus pinetorum auricularis

Microtus pinetorum auricularis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1952

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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 686357 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-06 19:22 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.