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. 13 shown for “Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:15 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.
The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Public domainThe Met
Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Communion cup used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Communion cup used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana

Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral program for John Wesley Williams, by Unidentified

Funeral program for John Wesley Williams

Unidentified · 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
CHAPELLE DE LA COMMUNION DE ST. JEAN EN GREVE, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

CHAPELLE DE LA COMMUNION DE ST. JEAN EN GREVE

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1713-1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grilles pour les Chapelles de la Communion, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Grilles pour les Chapelles de la Communion

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grilles pour les Chapelles de la Communion, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Grilles pour les Chapelles de la Communion

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Communion at Church, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Communion at Church

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595 - 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook, by Unidentified

Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook

Unidentified · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station, by Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954

Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station

Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954 · 1930s

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484718 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-10 05:15 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.