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. 22 shown for “Fragments of the marble stele (grave marker) of a woman holding a baby” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:48 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.
Fragments of the marble stele (grave marker) of a woman holding a baby

Fragments of the marble stele (grave marker) of a woman holding a baby

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–375 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Postcard of a woman holding a baby

Postcard of a woman holding a baby

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baby's Left Hand (unfinished), by Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873

Baby's Left Hand (unfinished)

Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Family Scene: Feeding a Baby, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Family Scene: Feeding a Baby

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby

Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Daguerreotype of a woman with a child on her lap

Daguerreotype of a woman with a child on her lap

Artist not stated in the record · 1839-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele with a family group

Marble grave stele with a family group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina

Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina

Artist not stated in the record · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, by Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of Lysistrate

Marble stele (grave marker) of Lysistrate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–325 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Albumen print of a sharecropping family

Albumen print of a sharecropping family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Birth of the Virgin

Birth of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a marble stele (grave marker)

Fragment of a marble stele (grave marker)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–375 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

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. 104 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3960089 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 2026-08-26 20:48 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.