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 “Graves & Company” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:27 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.
Keyed Bugle in E (originally E-flat?), by Graves & Company

Keyed Bugle in E (originally E-flat?)

Graves & Company · 1830–50

Public domainThe Met
Rural Free Delivery wagon, by L.C. Graves

Rural Free Delivery wagon

L.C. Graves · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in B-flat, by Graves & Company

Clarinet in B-flat

Graves & Company · ca. 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
Aristida oligantha Michx.

Aristida oligantha Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in C, by Graves & Company

Clarinet in C

Graves & Company · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Grave of Stonewall Jackson, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Grave of Stonewall Jackson

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1870

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

Marble grave stele of a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LE CHIMISTE, by Hormann

LE CHIMISTE

Hormann

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele (shaft) with a "Cypriot capital"

Limestone funerary stele (shaft) with a "Cypriot capital"

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
LA PHARMACIE

LA PHARMACIE

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)

Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bank, by Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

Bank

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1833–50

Public domainThe Met
Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain, by James McNeill Whistler

Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain

James McNeill Whistler · 1876, reworked 1885

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher, by Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

Pitcher

Hobbs, Brockunier and Company · 1883–87

Public domainThe Met
Paperweight, by Mount Washington Glass Company

Paperweight

Mount Washington Glass Company · 1870–1900

Public domainThe Met
Paperweight, by Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

Paperweight

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1850–75

Public domainThe Met
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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 51 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:27 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.