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 “Bronze youth” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 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.
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Youth Playing the Pipes, by Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

A Youth Playing the Pipes

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (1883/cast 1930)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Laboring Youth, by Hermann Blumenthal, German, born Essen, Germany 1905-died 1942

Laboring Youth

Hermann Blumenthal, German, born Essen, Germany 1905-died 1942 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three Graces, by Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797

Three Graces

Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Rejoice Oh Young Man in Thy Youth, by R. Tait McKenzie, Canadian, born Almonte, Ontario, Canada 1867-died Philadelphia, PA 1938; active

Rejoice Oh Young Man in Thy Youth

R. Tait McKenzie, Canadian, born Almonte, Ontario, Canada 1867-died Philadelphia, PA 1938; active · 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet

Bronze helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Buddha

Head of a Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a youth

Bronze statuette of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

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
Youth, by Barthélemy Prieur

Youth

Barthélemy Prieur · 17th century cast, after model ca. 1600

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
Youth, by Barthélemy Prieur

Youth

Barthélemy Prieur · 17th century cast, after model ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Youth, by Barthélemy Prieur

Youth

Barthélemy Prieur · 17th century, after model ca. 1600

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
Bronze statuette of a Black African youth

Bronze statuette of a Black African youth

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cheyenne Youth, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Cheyenne Youth

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a youth

Bronze statuette of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Youth's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Youth's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

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. 207 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. 10683 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.