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. 12 shown for “Dana Photo Studio, American” — 64 records examined, 51 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:11 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.
Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clinching, by Dana Photo Studio, American

Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clinching

Dana Photo Studio, American · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson's corner of the ring, by Dana Photo Studio, American

Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson's corner of the ring

Dana Photo Studio, American · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Dana Webster, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Joseph Dana Webster

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edmund L. Dana

Edmund L. Dana

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Dana Greene

Samuel Dana Greene

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Dana Greene

Samuel Dana Greene

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman in a bonnet by Globe Photo Studio

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman in a bonnet by Globe Photo Studio

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries

Photograph of Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries

Artist not stated in the record · July 4, 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Alexander H. Rieder by the Globe Photo Studio

Cabinet card of Alexander H. Rieder by the Globe Photo Studio

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of an unidentified man photographed by the Globe Photo Studio

Cabinet card of an unidentified man photographed by the Globe Photo Studio

Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of an unidentified boy on a printed vignette by the Globe Studio

Cabinet card of an unidentified boy on a printed vignette by the Globe Studio

Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Dana Gibson, by William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938

Charles Dana Gibson

William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938 · c. 1905

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. 608 matched · 24 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1024111 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 12:11 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.