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 “Folks At Home” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:18 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.
Tapestry lining for tester (ciel for lit à la duchesse en impériale), by Beauvais

Tapestry lining for tester (ciel for lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Beauvais · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Artist not stated in the record · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619), by Jacob Halder

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Public domainThe Met
Folks At Home

Folks At Home

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623), by Jacob Halder

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Public domainThe Met
Plantation Scene; Folks All Home

Plantation Scene; Folks All Home

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a High General

Torso of a High General

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frost's Dialogues for Young Folks

Frost's Dialogues for Young Folks

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Webster's Little Folks Speaker

Webster's Little Folks Speaker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girlhood, by J. Carroll Beckwith

Girlhood

J. Carroll Beckwith · 1901

Public domainThe Met
Ravine at Sorrento, by Edouard Bertin

Ravine at Sorrento

Edouard Bertin · 1821 or later

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
See 1986.18.6

See 1986.18.6

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Fair at Bezons, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

The Fair at Bezons

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1733

Public domainThe Met
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Relief chalice rim fragment with a wedjat frieze and below that a Hathor sistrum head emerging from papyrus plants (joined with 2010.9)

Relief chalice rim fragment with a wedjat frieze and below that a Hathor sistrum head emerging from papyrus plants (joined with 2010.9)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

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. 2845 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 357361 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 08:18 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.