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. 15 shown for “Company of Stationers” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:55 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 Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes, with an embroidered cover, by Company of Stationers

The Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes, with an embroidered cover

Company of Stationers · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Union News luggage Owney tag

Union News luggage Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bible, The Book of Psalms, by Company of Stationers

The Bible, The Book of Psalms

Company of Stationers · ca. 1649

Public domainThe Met
Company 1152. E.L. Moore, Chief Specialist, Company Commander. September 10, 1943. U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IIIinois, by Unidentified

Company 1152. E.L. Moore, Chief Specialist, Company Commander. September 10, 1943. U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IIIinois

Unidentified · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Indian Fruit Bat, by Bhawani Das

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82

Public domainThe Met
New Jersey Midland Rail Yard Owney tag

New Jersey Midland Rail Yard Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, The Book of Psalms with Royal Stuart arms, by Robert Barker

The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, The Book of Psalms with Royal Stuart arms

Robert Barker · ca. 1624

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick (one of a pair), by Stephen Pilcherd

Candlestick (one of a pair)

Stephen Pilcherd · ca. 1660–80

Public domainThe Met
Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66), by Ahmed Tekelü

Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)

Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Domed Pavilion

Domed Pavilion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey, by George Inness

Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey

George Inness · ca. 1891

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

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. 37555 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. 2906084 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 11:55 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.