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. 21 shown for “Court suit” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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.
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

Public domainThe Met
Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778 by John Smith, by Smith, John

Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778 by John Smith

Smith, John · ca 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1774–93

Public domainThe Met
Courting Couple, by Simons Bros. & Company

Courting Couple

Simons Bros. & Company · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

Public domainThe Met
Copy of the ruling in "Patricia Banks vs. Capital Airlines"

Copy of the ruling in "Patricia Banks vs. Capital Airlines"

Artist not stated in the record · February 29, 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Court of Neptune Fountain, by Gruber, Martin A

Court of Neptune Fountain

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Renwick Building, by Gruber, Martin A

Renwick Building

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Northwest Court Exhibits, Arts and Industries Building, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Northwest Court Exhibits, Arts and Industries Building

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Northwest Court Exhibits, Arts and Industries Building, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Northwest Court Exhibits, Arts and Industries Building

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court suit

Court suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1774–93

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Charles Devens (1820-1891), by Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague)

Portrait of Charles Devens (1820-1891)

Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague) · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court presentation suit

Court presentation suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Richard Rush (1780-1859), by Wood, Thomas Waterman 1823-1903

Portrait of Richard Rush (1780-1859)

Wood, Thomas Waterman 1823-1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from Life of the Buddha, by King Mindon

Scenes from Life of the Buddha

King Mindon · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Suit

Suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–90

Public domainThe Met
Suit

Suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

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. 247 matched · 24 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. 31518 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:16 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.