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. 22 shown for “Ducula carola carola” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:48 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.
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Ducula carola carola

Ducula carola carola

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, by Anders Zorn

Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg

Anders Zorn · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Ducula carola mindanensis

Ducula carola mindanensis

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triple-cased watch, by Firm of Clarke & Dunster

Triple-cased watch

Firm of Clarke & Dunster · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
St. John the Evangelist, by Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

St. John the Evangelist

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
Ducula carola mindanensis

Ducula carola mindanensis

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mourning Virgin, by Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

The Mourning Virgin

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
Ducula carola mindanensis

Ducula carola mindanensis

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of brocaded silk

Panel of brocaded silk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pipilo fuscus carolae

Pipilo fuscus carolae

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Parotia carolae

Parotia carolae

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Parotia carolae

Parotia carolae

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Pipilo fuscus carolae

Pipilo fuscus carolae

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Feb 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length

Length

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–85

Public domainThe Met
Pipilo fuscus carolae

Pipilo fuscus carolae

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pipilo fuscus carolae

Pipilo fuscus carolae

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1918

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. 53 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 690 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 07:48 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.