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 “Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:15 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.
Vase, by Grueby Faience Company

Vase

Grueby Faience Company · ca. 1900–1910

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.

Artist not stated in the record · February 15, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child

Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Public domainThe Met
M is for Mississippi and Murder, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

M is for Mississippi and Murder

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · October 23, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), by Vincent van Gogh

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover

Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 6, 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Two Angels, by Cosimo Rosselli

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Cosimo Rosselli · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · February 1955

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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1081970 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 2026-09-06 15:15 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.