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 “City letter carrier cap badge, number 139” — 57 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:07 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.
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 139

City letter carrier cap badge, number 139

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Infantry Shield (Pavise)

Infantry Shield (Pavise)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 15, by N. C. Walter and Sons

City letter carrier cap badge, number 15

N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal cap

Cylinder seal cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th–16th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1

City letter carrier cap badge, number 1

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant, by Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)

Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 2

City letter carrier cap badge, number 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

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
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1504

City letter carrier cap badge, number 1504

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paris, by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Paris

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 224

City letter carrier cap badge, number 224

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 518, by N. C. Walter and Sons

City letter carrier cap badge, number 518

N. C. Walter and Sons · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 6, by N. C. Walter and Sons

City letter carrier cap badge, number 6

N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 81

City letter carrier cap badge, number 81

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
City letter carrier substitute cap badge, number 447

City letter carrier substitute cap badge, number 447

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

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
City letter carrier cap badge

City letter carrier cap badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1877-1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Venetian Senator, by Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio)

Portrait of a Venetian Senator

Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio) · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1, by N. C. Walter and Sons

City letter carrier cap badge, number 1

N. C. Walter and Sons · 1922

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 2 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. 7020632 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 04:07 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.