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. 24 shown for “Elijah J. Christman” — 55 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:24 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.
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Dr. Dolan, Waterville, Minnesota], by Elijah J. Christman

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Dr. Dolan, Waterville, Minnesota]

Elijah J. Christman · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Henrya insularis Nees

Henrya insularis Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in B-flat, by Charles G. Christman

Clarinet in B-flat

Charles G. Christman · ca. 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camel

Camel

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus

The Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Scene

Hunting Scene

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elephant

Elephant

Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8), by Alessandro Magnasco

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

Alessandro Magnasco · 1687–1749

Public domainThe Met
Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters

The Last Supper

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Melia azedarach L.

Melia azedarach L.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well, by Johannes van Ceulen

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Public domainThe Met
Cnidoscolus multilobus (Pax) I.M. Johnst.

Cnidoscolus multilobus (Pax) I.M. Johnst.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph of the Spring, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach the Younger · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Piper caninum Blume

Piper caninum Blume

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/6/69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Donor Presented by a Saint, by Dieric Bouts

A Donor Presented by a Saint

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1460–65

Public domainThe Met
Elijah F. Pennypacker, Station Master on the Road, by Unidentified Artist

Elijah F. Pennypacker, Station Master on the Road

Unidentified Artist · 1872

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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 3 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. 1183865 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 05:24 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.