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 “Floral printed cotton” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:01 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.
Floral printed cotton

Floral printed cotton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Valance

Valance

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Red and yellow dress worn by Janet Jackson as Penny Woods on Good Times, by Rita Riggs, American, born 1930

Red and yellow dress worn by Janet Jackson as Penny Woods on Good Times

Rita Riggs, American, born 1930 · December 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
No. 19 Wood Colors Nov. 1882, by Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA

No. 19 Wood Colors Nov. 1882

Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1864–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cotton Tree Flowers

Cotton Tree Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1805

Public domainThe Met
Book 3 1887, by Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA

Book 3 1887

Old Pacific Print Works, Lawrence, MA, USA · 1886–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Sewing case

Sewing case

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
1850 - 1875 "Shoo-fly" Pieced Quilt, by unknown

1850 - 1875 "Shoo-fly" Pieced Quilt

unknown · 1850-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Cotton Prints Samples

Cotton Prints Samples

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Cotton Prints Samples

Cotton Prints Samples

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Printed cotton, by Robert Jones

Printed cotton

Robert Jones · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Cotton Prints Samples

Cotton Prints Samples

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–60

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. 3800 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. 311541 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 18:01 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.