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. 24 shown for “Carte-de-visite of a small child” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:49 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.
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a small child

Carte-de-visite of a small child

Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman and child in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman and child in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a Buffalo Soldier from the 24th Infantry Regiment, by 24th Infantry Regiment, American, 1869 - 2006

Carte-de-visite of a Buffalo Soldier from the 24th Infantry Regiment

24th Infantry Regiment, American, 1869 - 2006 · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of Hubert Gideon Welles in outfit sewn by Elizabeth Keckly

Carte-de-visite of Hubert Gideon Welles in outfit sewn by Elizabeth Keckly

Artist not stated in the record · 1862; printed 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Lydia Maria Child

Carte-de-visite portrait of Lydia Maria Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of the Smithsonian Castle

Carte-de-visite of the Smithsonian Castle

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Virgin and Child, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Standing Virgin and Child

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman wearing plaid

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and child, by Niccolò Roccatagliata

Virgin and child

Niccolò Roccatagliata · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of Edmonia Lewis

Carte-de-visite of Edmonia Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Carte de visite of Sgt. Jacob Johns (19th USCT)

Carte de visite of Sgt. Jacob Johns (19th USCT)

Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman in Martinique

Carte-de-visite of a woman in Martinique

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a toddler in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a toddler in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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. 951 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 784 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 13:49 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.