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. 17 shown for “Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.” — 49 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:11 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.
General Letellier on His Deathbed, by Théodore Géricault

General Letellier on His Deathbed

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1807, Friedland, by Ernest Meissonier

1807, Friedland

Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1936 or 4 Dec 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1999

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1613537 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-01 13:11 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.