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. 23 shown for “Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor” — 57 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:47 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.
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor

Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Alfred Sisley · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Beauty Parlor--"Verschonerung", by Jules Pascin, born Vidin, Bulgaria 1885-died Paris, France 1930

Beauty Parlor--"Verschonerung"

Jules Pascin, born Vidin, Bulgaria 1885-died Paris, France 1930 · ca. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
The Negro Motorist Green-Book

The Negro Motorist Green-Book

Artist not stated in the record · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist

Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Paso Robles Hotel Owney tag

Paso Robles Hotel Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine), by Utagawa Kunisada

Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine)

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1844

Public domainThe Met
At the Fender, by Wallace Nutting, American, 1861–1942

At the Fender

Wallace Nutting, American, 1861–1942 · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alphabet game in book form

Alphabet game in book form

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

Public domainThe Met
We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian), by Lilly Martin Spencer, born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902

We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)

Lilly Martin Spencer, born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (canapé) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Settee (canapé) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Laliberte's Fur Parlor, the Finest in the World, Quebec, Canada, by Strohmeyer and Wyman, active 1887-1899

Laliberte's Fur Parlor, the Finest in the World, Quebec, Canada

Strohmeyer and Wyman, active 1887-1899 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Price list for Poro beauty products

Price list for Poro beauty products

Artist not stated in the record · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Aquarium fountain, Canna indica

Aquarium fountain, Canna indica

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 2881788 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 2026-09-01 05:47 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.