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 “Costume Bell” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Edward Bell, by Unidentified Artist

Edward Bell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet (Sallet)

Helmet (Sallet)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Belle Boyd, by Unidentified Artist

Belle Boyd

Unidentified Artist · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hooded wall clock with calendar, by Ahasuerus I Fromanteel

Hooded wall clock with calendar

Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
William Bell, by Unidentified Artist

William Bell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Alexander Graham Bell, by Unidentified Artist

Alexander Graham Bell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Charles Heyer Bell, by L. Buchheister

Charles Heyer Bell

L. Buchheister · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Winfield Scott Hancock and David Bell Birney, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Winfield Scott Hancock and David Bell Birney

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Alexander Graham Bell, by Unidentified Artist

Alexander Graham Bell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Alexander Graham Bell, by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 31 Dec 1850 - 25 Apr 1938

Alexander Graham Bell

John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 31 Dec 1850 - 25 Apr 1938 · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Linen Family, June 26, 1886, by Unidentified Artist

Linen Family, June 26, 1886

Unidentified Artist · June 26, 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Alexander Graham Bell, by E. J. Holmes

Alexander Graham Bell

E. J. Holmes · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume Bell

Costume Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. William McKendree Gwin

Mrs. William McKendree Gwin

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 774 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. 37010 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-04 07:12 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.