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. 13 shown for “Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley” — 42 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:20 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 Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · November 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean), by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely, by Carter, American

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

Carter, American · November 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely, by Carter, American

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

Carter, American · November 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely

Artist not stated in the record · November 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Last will and testament of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley, by Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley, American, born 1820

Last will and testament of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley, American, born 1820 · October 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · January 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · December 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · December 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · February 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Biography of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley

Artist not stated in the record · December 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of an unidentified man

Cabinet card of an unidentified man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2890427 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 2026-09-03 16:20 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.