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. 23 shown for “Coach Horn in C” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:49 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.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
German mail coach model

German mail coach model

Artist not stated in the record · 1870-1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Title Page

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coach Horn in C

Coach Horn in C

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–89

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Charles W. Miller’s Coach and Baggage Express Owney tag

Charles W. Miller’s Coach and Baggage Express Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Longrifle, by Jacob Kuntz

Flintlock Longrifle

Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armored Cavalryman

Armored Cavalryman

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480), by Heinrich Heid von Winterthur

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)

Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nimcha (Saber) with Scabbard

Nimcha (Saber) with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · hilt and scabbard, late 17th or early 18th century; blade 16th or 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coach Horn in C

Coach Horn in C

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of the Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762–1830), with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of the Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762–1830), with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · hallmarked for 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again, by James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959

Commemorative Scrapbook Documenting the 1901 Record Breaking Coach Race from New York City to Philadelphia and Back Again

James Hazen Hyde, American, 1876 - 1959 · 1901

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. 958 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 7466129 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 02:49 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.