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 “Brown and Turner families” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Afro-American Historical Family Record, by James M. Vickroy, 1847 - 1913

Afro-American Historical Family Record

James M. Vickroy, 1847 - 1913 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whalers, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whalers

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Neorhodomela larix (Turner) Masuda

Artist not stated in the record · May 1898

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

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Acrosorium uncinatum (D. Turner) Kylin

Acrosorium uncinatum (D. Turner) Kylin

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tsii' Edo' Ai (Apache fiddle), by Athabascan Family

Tsii' Edo' Ai (Apache fiddle)

Athabascan Family · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Egregia menziesii (Turner) Aresch.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Gracilaria cervicornis (Turner) J. Agardh

Gracilaria cervicornis (Turner) J. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alto Recorder in F, by Johann Benedikt Gahn

Alto Recorder in F

Johann Benedikt Gahn · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Iridaea cordata (Turner) Bory

Iridaea cordata (Turner) Bory

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Iridaea cordata (Turner) Bory var. cordata

Iridaea cordata (Turner) Bory var. cordata

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lake of Zug, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Lake of Zug

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Hormosira banksii (Turner) Decne.

Hormosira banksii (Turner) Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Neogastroclonium subarticulatum (Turner) L. Le Gall et al.

Neogastroclonium subarticulatum (Turner) L. Le Gall et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Drawings, by Filippo Juvarra

Album of Drawings

Filippo Juvarra · 1678–1736

Public domainThe Met
Hormosira banksii (Turner) Decne.

Hormosira banksii (Turner) Decne.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1978

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. 1416 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1507569 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 16:07 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.