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. 22 shown for “Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:39 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.
Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey

Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Eagle's Nest on Lake Millinocket, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Eagle's Nest on Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate with a stamped brass eagle design from a cartridge box belt

Plate with a stamped brass eagle design from a cartridge box belt

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

Public domainThe Met
Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, by Giovanni Pisano

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
"Eagle on Top of Globe" Engine Panel Painting, by unknown

"Eagle on Top of Globe" Engine Panel Painting

unknown · ca 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Labret with eagle head, by Mexica artist(s)

Labret with eagle head

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic, by Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911

Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic

Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911 · mid 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle, by Jehan Aert van Tricht

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle

Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Grey three-piece evening ensemble, by Mary Lou Chandler, American, died 1974

Grey three-piece evening ensemble

Mary Lou Chandler, American, died 1974 · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle pendant, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Eagle pendant

Chiriquí artist(s) · 800–1519 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a Civil War soldier, by Unidentified

Tintype of a Civil War soldier

Unidentified · 1861 - 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch in Form of a Bird of Prey

Brooch in Form of a Bird of Prey

Artist not stated in the record · late 500s

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Army M-1879 junior officer's dress coat worn by John Hanks Alexander, by John G. Haas, American

U.S. Army M-1879 junior officer's dress coat worn by John Hanks Alexander

John G. Haas, American · ca. 1890

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

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel Design, by Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713

Ornament Panel Design

Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle transformation figure, by Olmec artist(s)

Eagle transformation figure

Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 122 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. 1559915 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:39 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.