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. 18 shown for “Child’s formal ensemble (kamishimo)” — 48 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:19 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.
Child’s formal ensemble (kamishimo)

Child’s formal ensemble (kamishimo)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mother and Daughter, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Mother and Daughter

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Army dress uniform gloves worn by General Colin L. Powell

Army dress uniform gloves worn by General Colin L. Powell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1989-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
A Room in the Governor's Residence, Hermannstadt (?), by M. Sekim

A Room in the Governor's Residence, Hermannstadt (?)

M. Sekim · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), by Théodore Chassériau

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)

Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Eliza Osgood Peabody, Age 6, by Unidentified

Eliza Osgood Peabody, Age 6

Unidentified · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
On the Terrace, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

On the Terrace

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child, by Kasebier, Gertrude

Willie Spotted Horse, Sioux Indian child

Kasebier, Gertrude · ca 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7

GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Escaramuza 5 piece ensemble, by Enselma

Escaramuza 5 piece ensemble

Enselma · 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Borden, Father of Thomas Wix Borden, by Unidentified

John Borden, Father of Thomas Wix Borden

Unidentified · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13475 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 2026-09-03 05:19 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.