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. 22 shown for “Bruce, George” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:02 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.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for an Artificial Blast for Typecasting Machines, by Bruce, George

Patent Model for an Artificial Blast for Typecasting Machines

Bruce, George · ca 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Man Leaning on a Parapet, by Georges Seurat

A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat · ca. 1881

Public domainThe Met
Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Theodore Roosevelt and his Cabinet

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fujiwara no Kamatari as a Shinto Deity

Fujiwara no Kamatari as a Shinto Deity

Artist not stated in the record · after 1350

Public domainThe Met
Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze

Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cavalry Men at Rest, by Georg Philipp Rugendas

Cavalry Men at Rest

Georg Philipp Rugendas · late 17th–mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre

Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man with a Steel Gorget, by Rembrandt

Man with a Steel Gorget

Rembrandt

Public domainThe Met
Coreopsis lanceolata var. villosa Michx.

Coreopsis lanceolata var. villosa Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, and George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, by Francesco Bartolozzi

George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, and George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry

Francesco Bartolozzi · 1779–1802

Public domainThe Met
Smilax hispida Raf.

Smilax hispida Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/7/34

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding portable lantern in book form

Folding portable lantern in book form

Artist not stated in the record · between 1860 and 1869

Public domainThe Met
Leea indica (Burm. f.) Merr.

Leea indica (Burm. f.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bum-bemsue, by Thomas Martin Easterly

Bum-bemsue

Thomas Martin Easterly · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Heliotropium angiospermum Murray

Heliotropium angiospermum Murray

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Basket Weavers], by Giorgio Sommer

[Basket Weavers]

Giorgio Sommer · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Priva lappulacea (L.) Pers.

Priva lappulacea (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Water Seller], by Giorgio Sommer

[Water Seller]

Giorgio Sommer · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl

Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Enamel "Plum" Bowl, by Louis C. Tiffany

Design for Enamel "Plum" Bowl

Louis C. Tiffany · 1898–99

Public domainThe Met
Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl

Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1938

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. 108 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 212725 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:02 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.