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 “Brick Stamped with the Cone Seal of Pasanesut” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:51 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.
Brick Stamped with the Cone Seal of Pasanesut

Brick Stamped with the Cone Seal of Pasanesut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
50c Beer revenue stamp single

50c Beer revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of Pasanesut

Funerary Cone of Pasanesut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Granaries, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Granaries, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25, 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brick Stamped with a Circular Seal

Brick Stamped with a Circular Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter written to William V. Brady

Letter written to William V. Brady

Artist not stated in the record · January 25, 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Min

Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter

Letter

Artist not stated in the record · December 10, 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone the Wab-Priest Aakheperkareseneb

Funerary Cone the Wab-Priest Aakheperkareseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a wooden building

Photograph of a wooden building

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

A picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of the Goldsmith Nebseny

Funerary Cone of the Goldsmith Nebseny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Cone of Sen

Funerary Cone of Sen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

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. 166 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3015403 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 2026-08-29 08:51 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.