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. 16 shown for “Erica patersonia Andrews” — 46 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 23:26 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.
Shield, by Moche artist(s)

Shield

Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Erica patersonia Andrews

Erica patersonia Andrews

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancers Practicing at the Barre, by Edgar Degas

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Edgar Degas · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sulking, by Edgar Degas

Sulking

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 1800 to 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Dec 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Lagunaria patersonia (Andrews) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1930

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20668 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-08 23:26 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.