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 portrait of Carrie N. Lacy” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:16 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.
[Carte-de-Visite Album of British and European Royalty], by F. Joubert

[Carte-de-Visite Album of British and European Royalty]

F. Joubert · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie N. Lacy

Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie N. Lacy

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie Lining

Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie Lining

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet

Carte-de-visite portrait of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a man riding a burro in Lima, Peru

Carte-de-visite of a man riding a burro in Lima, Peru

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Self-Portrait

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of the office and quarters of Captain Horace James

Carte-de-visite of the office and quarters of Captain Horace James

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a Freedmen's School with students and teachers

Carte-de-visite of a Freedmen's School with students and teachers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland

Carte-de-visite portrait of Isabel and Herbert Howland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
George N. Hollins, by Unidentified Artist

George N. Hollins

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Harold M. White

Carte-de-visite portrait of Harold M. White

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Walter W. Johnson

Carte-de-visite portrait of Walter W. Johnson

Artist not stated in the record · 1868

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. 476 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 58 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 19:16 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.