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. 12 shown for “For Her Majesty's Special Service docket” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

For Her Majesty's Special Service docket

For Her Majesty's Special Service docket

Artist not stated in the record · January 1707

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Convention between Her Majesty and the United States of America document

Convention between Her Majesty and the United States of America document

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Her Majesty as She Appeared on Her First Visit to Convent Garden Theatre, November 17, 1837, by D.W. Kellogg and Company

Her Majesty as She Appeared on Her First Visit to Convent Garden Theatre, November 17, 1837

D.W. Kellogg and Company · after 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ocean, by Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784

Ocean

Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britian, by Moore, Thomas

Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britian

Moore, Thomas · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · July 28-29, 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Teatotal Destruction of Sir John Barleycorn

The Teatotal Destruction of Sir John Barleycorn

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Minister Extraordinary Taking Passage & Bound On a Foreign Mission to the Court of His Satanic Majesty! by Henry Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

A Minister Extraordinary Taking Passage & Bound On a Foreign Mission to the Court of His Satanic Majesty! by Henry Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On His Majesty's Service cover sent from FPO 164 on album page

On His Majesty's Service cover sent from FPO 164 on album page

Artist not stated in the record · February 21, 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On His Majesty's Service FPO cover on album page

On His Majesty's Service FPO cover on album page

Artist not stated in the record · May 1, 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On His Majesty's Service cover sent from FPO 164 on album page

On His Majesty's Service cover sent from FPO 164 on album page

Artist not stated in the record · March 24, 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On His Majesty's Service FPO 731 cover on album page

On His Majesty's Service FPO 731 cover on album page

Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1945

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 467405 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 21:20 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.