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. 20 shown for “Headcovering” — 28 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:07 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.
Headcovering

Headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Headcovering

Headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headcovering

Headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's headcovering

Woman's headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a grotesque man

Terracotta head of a grotesque man

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Extended Cap

Extended Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Headcovering

Headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Headcovering

Headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Rake, by Jean-François Millet

Woman with a Rake

Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

Public domainThe Met
Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall bird, by R. W. Martin and Brothers

Tall bird

R. W. Martin and Brothers · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creature, by R. W. Martin and Brothers

Creature

R. W. Martin and Brothers · 1885

Public domainThe Met
Bag or head covering

Bag or head covering

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16 matched · 16 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:07 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.