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. 15 shown for “Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 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.
Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar

Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 963 AH/1556 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1027 AH/1618 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the Tarikh-i-Alfi, by Basawan

The Imam of Baghdad brought before the Caliph on a charge of heresy from the Tarikh-i-Alfi

Basawan · ca. 1592 - 1594

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1030 AH/1621 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sultan Murad and a Consort, by Attributed here to Manohar (active 1582–ca. 1624)

Sultan Murad and a Consort

Attributed here to Manohar (active 1582–ca. 1624) · ca. 1597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1031 AH/1621–22 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coin

Coin

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1027 AH/1617–18 CE

Public domainThe Met
Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 583, reassembled after discovery

Public domainThe Met
Group of Zodiac Coins--Aries, Leo, Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn

Group of Zodiac Coins--Aries, Leo, Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1027 AH/1617–18 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coin cabinet, by Charles Percier

Coin cabinet

Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Public domainThe Met
Coin with Sign of Cancer

Coin with Sign of Cancer

Artist not stated in the record · 1032 AH?/1622–23 CE

Public domainThe Met
Coin with Sign of Libra

Coin with Sign of Libra

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1034 AH/1625 CE

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. 236 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2987735 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 15:12 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.