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 “Embroidered picture” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:00 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.
Embroidered Picture, by Mary Wright

Embroidered Picture

Mary Wright · ca. 1754

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Elizabeth Folwell's School

Embroidered Picture

Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered and Painted Picture

Embroidered and Painted Picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture

Picture

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture

Picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture

Picture

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture

Embroidered Picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

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. 202 matched · 24 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. 15376 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:00 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.