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 “Gallipoli” — 50 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:38 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.
Gallipoli (from Sketchbook), by Mary Newbold Sargent

Gallipoli (from Sketchbook)

Mary Newbold Sargent · 1904

Public domainThe Met
Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Gallipoli, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Gallipoli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Francesco de Mura

The Assumption of the Virgin

Francesco de Mura · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Opopanax chironium (L.) W.D.J. Koch

Opopanax chironium (L.) W.D.J. Koch

Artist not stated in the record · May 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, from "Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa" (Treatise of the Plans & Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land), by Jacques Callot

Frontispiece, from "Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa" (Treatise of the Plans & Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land)

Jacques Callot · 1620

Public domainThe Met
Stipellula capensis (Thunb.) Röser & H. R. Hamasha

Stipellula capensis (Thunb.) Röser & H. R. Hamasha

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Micromeria graeca Benth. ex Rchb.

Micromeria graeca Benth. ex Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thymus sp.

Thymus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /6/86

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraxinus oxycarpa Willd.

Fraxinus oxycarpa Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dianthus liburnicus Bartl.

Dianthus liburnicus Bartl.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene nivea (Nutt.) Muhl. ex DC.

Silene nivea (Nutt.) Muhl. ex DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acacia adsurgens Maiden & Blakeley

Acacia adsurgens Maiden & Blakeley

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/6/48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acacia tenuissima F. Muell.

Acacia tenuissima F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/6/48

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acacia retivenea F. Muell.

Acacia retivenea F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/6/48

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 45 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 2026-09-07 09:38 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.