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 “Boell and Michelin” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:52 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.
Broadway, New York, West Side from Fulton Street to Courtland Street, by Boell and Michelin

Broadway, New York, West Side from Fulton Street to Courtland Street

Boell and Michelin · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Birds Eye View of Andersonville Prison Ga., by Boell, William

Birds Eye View of Andersonville Prison Ga.

Boell, William · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baker's Cart, by Jean Michelin

The Baker's Cart

Jean Michelin · 1656

Public domainThe Met
Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914-1918): Verdun and the Battles for its Possession.

Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914-1918): Verdun and the Battles for its Possession.

Artist not stated in the record · 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Park Place, New York, from Broadway to Church Street, North Side, A.D. 1854, by William Boell

View of Park Place, New York, from Broadway to Church Street, North Side, A.D. 1854

William Boell · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)

Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Louis Michelin

Snuffbox

Louis Michelin · 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VI. Fearful Quarrels and Brutal Violence...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VI. Fearful Quarrels and Brutal Violence...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John's College Fordham, New York, by William Rodrigue

St. John's College Fordham, New York

William Rodrigue · 1846–51

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VIII. The Bottle Has Done Its Work...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VIII. The Bottle Has Done Its Work...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proposed Colossal Statue of George Washington for the City of New York, by G. Thomas

Proposed Colossal Statue of George Washington for the City of New York

G. Thomas · 1845

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery and Want...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery and Want...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate I. The Bottle Is Brought Out for the First Time...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate I. The Bottle Is Brought Out for the First Time...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca. 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Jean-Francoise Marmontel, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Portrait of Jean-Francoise Marmontel

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1765

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate IV. Unable to Obtain Employment...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate IV. Unable to Obtain Employment...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Portrait of Michel de Montaigne

Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1774

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, from "Herculean Subjects", by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, from "Herculean Subjects"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · ca. 1526–27

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate III. An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate III. An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
The Bottle: Plate VII. The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody, by Michelin, Francis

The Bottle: Plate VII. The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody

Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)

Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)

Artist not stated in the record

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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1463639 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 00:52 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.