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. 15 shown for “Eddie Ed, American” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:12 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.
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, by John Lloyd Stephens

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

John Lloyd Stephens · 1842

Public domainThe Met
Flier for a hip-hop event at T-Connection Disco featuring Afrika Bambaataa, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for a hip-hop event at T-Connection Disco featuring Afrika Bambaataa

Eddie Ed, American · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady (possibly Tryntje Otten Veeder), by Schuyler Limner

Portrait of a Lady (possibly Tryntje Otten Veeder)

Schuyler Limner · 1720–25

Public domainThe Met
Flier for “Dynasty Jam Boogie” designed by Eddie Ed, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for “Dynasty Jam Boogie” designed by Eddie Ed

Eddie Ed, American · March 21, 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Longrifle, by Jacob Kuntz

Flintlock Longrifle

Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Flier for hip-hop event at T-Connection featuring DJ Love Squigg, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for hip-hop event at T-Connection featuring DJ Love Squigg

Eddie Ed, American · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Flier for “The Final Countdown - The Battle, Cosmic Force vs. The Funky 4”, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for “The Final Countdown - The Battle, Cosmic Force vs. The Funky 4”

Eddie Ed, American · December 19, 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Public domainThe Met
Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed, by Eddie Ed, American

Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed

Eddie Ed, American · November 21, 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Francesca" Violin, by Antonio Stradivari

"Francesca" Violin

Antonio Stradivari · 1694

Public domainThe Met
Pilot Eddie Gardner's aviation leggings

Pilot Eddie Gardner's aviation leggings

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipe Organ, by Thomas Appleton

Pipe Organ

Thomas Appleton · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of airmail pilot Eddie Gardner

Photograph of airmail pilot Eddie Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · August 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandolin, by Angelo Mannello

Mandolin

Angelo Mannello · ca. 1900

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. 6930 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1013959 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 15:12 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.