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 “Beryl intaglio with portrait of Julia Domna” — 43 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:06 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.
Beryl intaglio with portrait of Julia Domna

Beryl intaglio with portrait of Julia Domna

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–210 CE

Public domainThe Met
Amallectis domna

Amallectis domna

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 208–209 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Weston Seaton with her Children Augustine and Julia, by Charles Bird King, 26 Sep 1785 - 18 Mar 1862

Sarah Weston Seaton with her Children Augustine and Julia

Charles Bird King, 26 Sep 1785 - 18 Mar 1862 · c. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors

Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 225 CE

Public domainThe Met
Julia Ann Blackburn Washington, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Julia Ann Blackburn Washington

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby and Julia Smith

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby and Julia Smith

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Miss Julia J. Thomas

Carte-de-visite portrait of Miss Julia J. Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling, by Unidentified Artist

Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling

Unidentified Artist · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Julia Blatchford Potter (Mrs. E.T.), by Pierce Francis Connelly, born Grand Coteau 1841-died Rome, Italy 1932

Julia Blatchford Potter (Mrs. E.T.)

Pierce Francis Connelly, born Grand Coteau 1841-died Rome, Italy 1932 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulysses S. Grant and Family, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Ulysses S. Grant and Family

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flavian Julia Helena, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Flavian Julia Helena

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Caroline Greig and Sister Julia], by Unidentified

[Caroline Greig and Sister Julia]

Unidentified · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photographic portrait of a soldier inside decorative military frame, by Unidentified

Photographic portrait of a soldier inside decorative military frame

Unidentified · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Julia Drake

Photograph of Julia Drake

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 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. 2896778 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 20:06 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.