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 “Document listing physical measurements for Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:16 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.
Document listing physical measurements for Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay

Document listing physical measurements for Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document listing Sonny Liston's win-loss record

Document listing Sonny Liston's win-loss record

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document listing Cassius Clay's win-loss record

Document listing Cassius Clay's win-loss record

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document comparing Clay and Liston's knock-out percentages

Document comparing Clay and Liston's knock-out percentages

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document listing championship boxing matches held in the state of Florida

Document listing championship boxing matches held in the state of Florida

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document of a biographical sketch of Chris Dundee

Document of a biographical sketch of Chris Dundee

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document listing telephone numbers in the greater Miami area

Document listing telephone numbers in the greater Miami area

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document of biographical sketch of Bill MacDonald

Document of biographical sketch of Bill MacDonald

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

Artist not stated in the record · Feburary 25, 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document with biographical sketch of Cassius Clay, by Dundee's 5th St. Gym, American, 1950 - 1983

Document with biographical sketch of Cassius Clay

Dundee's 5th St. Gym, American, 1950 - 1983 · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autograph written by Cassius Clay

Autograph written by Cassius Clay

Artist not stated in the record · 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ticket for boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston

Ticket for boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston

Artist not stated in the record · 1965

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1535041 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-01 20:16 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.