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. 24 shown for “Gruber, Martin A” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 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.
Combination table, by Martin Carlin

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Martin Luther, by Gruber, Martin A

Statue of Martin Luther

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Approaching Thunder Storm, by Martin Johnson Heade

Approaching Thunder Storm

Martin Johnson Heade · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer

Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Washington, DC Church, by Gruber, Martin A

Unidentified Washington, DC Church

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Secretary, by Martin Carlin

Secretary

Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, by Francí Gomar

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló

Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Public domainThe Met
Q Street Bridge, by Gruber, Martin A

Q Street Bridge

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Man in a Hat Gazing Upward, by Martin Schongauer

Bust of a Man in a Hat Gazing Upward

Martin Schongauer · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Boulder Bridge, by Gruber, Martin A

Boulder Bridge

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock, by Martin

Mantel clock

Martin · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin

Saint Martin

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Chain Bridge, by Gruber, Martin A

Chain Bridge

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Martin Folkes (1690–1754), by Jacques-Antoine Dassier

Martin Folkes (1690–1754)

Jacques-Antoine Dassier · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Trees in Washington, DC, by Gruber, Martin A

Trees in Washington, DC

Gruber, Martin A · 1919

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. 4240 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1792200 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 08:58 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.