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. 21 shown for “Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:13 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.
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform

Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Indian Fruit Bat, by Bhawani Das

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82

Public domainThe Met
Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform, by Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933

Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Fruit, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Basket of Fruit

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cap from Fruit of Islam uniform, by Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933

Cap from Fruit of Islam uniform

Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphic Galleon, by 'Abd al-Qadir Hisari

Calligraphic Galleon

'Abd al-Qadir Hisari · dated 1180 AH/1766–67 CE

Public domainThe Met
Trousers from Fruit of Islam uniform

Trousers from Fruit of Islam uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · possibly 1527–33

Public domainThe Met
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier pillbox hat

Letter carrier pillbox hat

Artist not stated in the record · 1969-1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man Holding a Book, by Master of the View of Saint Gudula

Young Man Holding a Book

Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform beret

Letter carrier uniform beret

Artist not stated in the record · 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cactus Plant in Flower

Cactus Plant in Flower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
US Navy dress uniform hat worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as commander

US Navy dress uniform hat worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as commander

Artist not stated in the record · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Women's US Army Service hat worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown, by Sam Bonk Uniform and Civilian Cap Company, American, founded 1963

Women's US Army Service hat worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown

Sam Bonk Uniform and Civilian Cap Company, American, founded 1963 · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform worn by Medina Rowell, by Unidentified

Nation of Islam Sister Clara Muhammad School uniform worn by Medina Rowell

Unidentified · 1978-1979

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. 193 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2966830 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 13:13 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.