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 “Giovanni Maggi” — 44 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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.
Catafalque for Duke Alessandro Farnese, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura", by Giovanni Maggi

Catafalque for Duke Alessandro Farnese, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura"

Giovanni Maggi · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Henry Atwell Thomas, 1834 - 12 Nov 1904

Maggie Mitchell

Henry Atwell Thomas, 1834 - 12 Nov 1904 · c. 1880-83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catafalque for Pope Sixtus V, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura", by Giovanni Maggi

Catafalque for Pope Sixtus V, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura"

Giovanni Maggi · 1591

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antiquarum Statuorum urbis Romae... Icones, by Etienne DuPérac

Antiquarum Statuorum urbis Romae... Icones

Etienne DuPérac · 1575, 1584, 1600

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Maggie J. Sims

Cabinet card of Maggie J. Sims

Artist not stated in the record · mid 1870s-mid 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Maggie Green

Photograph of Maggie Green

Artist not stated in the record · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Unidentified Artist

Maggie Mitchell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Maggie Hickman in a cap and gown

Photograph of Maggie Hickman in a cap and gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Unidentified Artist

Maggie Mitchell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 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. 2717 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.