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 “Button from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School” — 51 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:47 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.
The Annunciation, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Annunciation

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Button from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School

Button from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School

Artist not stated in the record · April 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Program from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School

Program from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School

Artist not stated in the record · April 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Photographic souvenir of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home in Anacostia, D.C., by Unidentified

Photographic souvenir of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home in Anacostia, D.C.

Unidentified · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Garfield Memorial University, by A. Hoen & Co.

Garfield Memorial University

A. Hoen & Co. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button featuring Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, by Unidentified

Pinback button featuring Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595), by Carlo Dolci

Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595)

Carlo Dolci · 1645 or 1646

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Luis de Morales

The Lamentation

Luis de Morales · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in uniform

Photograph of Lt. Louise Lomax in uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Lapel pin for Honorable Discharge issued to Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

Lapel pin for Honorable Discharge issued to Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

Artist not stated in the record · 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors, by Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni

Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors

Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni · possibly ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Letter written by John Brown and Frederick Douglass to Brown's wife and children

Letter written by John Brown and Frederick Douglass to Brown's wife and children

Artist not stated in the record · January 30, 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Charles Fergus Binns

Vase

Charles Fergus Binns · 1926

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2069081 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 13:47 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.