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. 16 shown for “C. C. Woolworth” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 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.
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist, by C. C.

Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist

C. C. · ca. 1640, with 18th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
1c Jefferson Domestic Card, by C. C. Woolworth

1c Jefferson Domestic Card

C. C. Woolworth · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Domestic Postal Card, by C. C. Woolworth

Domestic Postal Card

C. C. Woolworth · Issue date: 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphenomeris clavata (L.) Maxon

Sphenomeris clavata (L.) Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 1883 to 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stool from the Greensboro Lunch Counter

Stool from the Greensboro Lunch Counter

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lunch counter stool from Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins

Lunch counter stool from Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins

Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1960

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. 67251 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 986693 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 22:31 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.