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. 17 shown for “Comb Morion” — 52 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 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.
Comb Morion

Comb Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65

Public domainThe Met
Morion parallelus

Morion parallelus

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb Morion

Comb Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Morion orientalis

Morion orientalis

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1972 to 29 Oct 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb Morion

Comb Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90

Public domainThe Met
Baccharis apicifoliosa A.A. Schneid. & Boldrini

Baccharis apicifoliosa A.A. Schneid. & Boldrini

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/2/88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comb Morion

Comb Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Hot comb from a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes

Hot comb from a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Electrical hot comb heater and hot comb

Electrical hot comb heater and hot comb

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Morion

Morion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Public domainThe Met
Morion for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony

Morion for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
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. 12 matched · 12 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. 9301 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:50 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.