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 Lydia Maria Child” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:57 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.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

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
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

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
Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony van Dyck

Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lydia Jackson Emerson, by Black & Case, active 1864 - 1867

Lydia Jackson Emerson

Black & Case, active 1864 - 1867 · 1866

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

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

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 Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of two children

Carte-de-visite of two children

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s-1870s

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

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Charlotte Maria Cross Wigfall, by Unidentified Artist

Charlotte Maria Cross Wigfall

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

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 Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

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
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

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

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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 young girl in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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 young boy in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young boy in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in Majesty

Virgin and Child in Majesty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of women and children in a cotton field

Carte-de-visite of women and children in a cotton field

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

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. 254 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. 33 matched · 33 examined · 3 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 11:57 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.