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 “Confederate through the lines cover” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:25 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.
Lupona (royal seat), by Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master"

Lupona (royal seat)

Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Public domainThe Met
Confederate through the lines cover

Confederate through the lines cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 21, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Confederate through the lines cover

Confederate through the lines cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

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
Confederate through the lines cover

Confederate through the lines cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 29, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine container (Hu)

Wine container (Hu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
letter from Confederate through the lines cover

letter from Confederate through the lines cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine container (Hu)

Wine container (Hu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Confederate semi-official cover

Confederate semi-official cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

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
Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Confederate blockade-run cover

Confederate blockade-run cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft

Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Public domainThe Met
Confederate cover

Confederate cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Confederate blockade-run cover

Confederate blockade-run cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, by Caspar David Friedrich

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Confederate 2c Andrew Jackson on semi-official imprinted envelope

Confederate 2c Andrew Jackson on semi-official imprinted envelope

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Adulteress, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ and the Adulteress

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Confederate cover

Confederate cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Express from Richmond to Louisville posted to New York cover

Express from Richmond to Louisville posted to New York cover

Artist not stated in the record · August 8, 1861

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. 528 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1406993 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-31 21:25 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.