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 “Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander” — 44 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 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 Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander

Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Alexander H. Rieder by the Globe Photo Studio

Cabinet card of Alexander H. Rieder by the Globe Photo Studio

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, by Benedetto Luti

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Benedetto Luti · 1715–20

Public domainThe Met
Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne

Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapier

Rapier

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Alexander W. Chase, by Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916

Alexander W. Chase

Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James A. Linen, by Frank Augustus Jewell, 28 Nov 1838 - 13 Feb 1903

James A. Linen

Frank Augustus Jewell, 28 Nov 1838 - 13 Feb 1903 · c. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-viste of a Buffalo Soldier

Carte-de-viste of a Buffalo Soldier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of three young women

Cabinet card of three young women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

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

Cabinet card of an unidentified man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

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

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Susan Bell

Cabinet card of Susan Bell

Artist not stated in the record · February-March 5, 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card photograph of Blanche Randals

Cabinet card photograph of Blanche Randals

Artist not stated in the record · early 1890s-1908

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2923304 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.