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. 18 shown for “Flight Suits, Ltd.” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 14:29 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.
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Pier Francesco Mola

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Pier Francesco Mola · ca. 1641

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying, Blue Angels, United States Navy, Scott Kartvedt, by Flight Suits, Ltd.

Suit, Flying, Blue Angels, United States Navy, Scott Kartvedt

Flight Suits, Ltd. · ca. 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Carlo Maratti

The Flight into Egypt

Carlo Maratti · ca. 1664

Public domainThe Met
Pilot Edward Gardner’s flight suit

Pilot Edward Gardner’s flight suit

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1767–70

Public domainThe Met
Suit, SpaceShipOne, Mike Melvill

Suit, SpaceShipOne, Mike Melvill

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Nativity

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1406–10

Public domainThe Met
Suit, shirt, and handkerchief worn by Ira Tucker Sr., by San Carlo, Italian

Suit, shirt, and handkerchief worn by Ira Tucker Sr.

San Carlo, Italian · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Worcester factory

Plate

Worcester factory · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force

Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosaic glass urn with silver leaf design, by Giuseppe Barovier

Mosaic glass urn with silver leaf design

Giuseppe Barovier · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying, United States Air Force Thunderbirds, by Gibson & Barnes Inc.

Suit, Flying, United States Air Force Thunderbirds

Gibson & Barnes Inc. · 2006-2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies after Rubens’s “The Flight into Egypt”, by Eugène Delacroix

Studies after Rubens’s “The Flight into Egypt”

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1830(?)

Public domainThe Met
Flight suit worn by Charles F. Bolden during his first spaceflight

Flight suit worn by Charles F. Bolden during his first spaceflight

Artist not stated in the record · 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amelia Earhart's flight suit, by Arnold, Constable & Company

Amelia Earhart's flight suit

Arnold, Constable & Company · c. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden

Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whittle W.1X Turbojet Engine, by Power Jets, Ltd. (London, England)

Whittle W.1X Turbojet Engine

Power Jets, Ltd. (London, England) · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Overton, by George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951

Overton

George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951 · ca. 1875–85

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. 108 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 31803 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 14:29 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.