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 “FUBU, founded 1992” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:13 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 Grip

Shield Grip

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Black tuxedo shirt by FUBU, by FUBU, founded 1992

Black tuxedo shirt by FUBU

FUBU, founded 1992 · 1992-2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Boss

Shield Boss

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate (One of Three), by Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835

Plate (One of Three)

Manufacture de Nast, French, founded ca. 1783 - 1835 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porphyry support for a water basin

Porphyry support for a water basin

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Lever pouch padlock, by H. C. Jones

Lever pouch padlock

H. C. Jones · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cup

Fragment of a cup

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1517

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow, green, black glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Sherd, red body, white slip, green glaze

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow glaze with brown stain

Sherd, red body, white slip, yellow glaze with brown stain

Artist not stated in the record · 1250-1516

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. 1474 matched · 24 examined · 20 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. 55488 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-05 06:13 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.