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. 16 shown for “Human remains from the coffin of Ahmose” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 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.
Human remains from the coffin of Ahmose

Human remains from the coffin of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Piece of George Washington’s mahogany coffin

Piece of George Washington’s mahogany coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy of a woman named Nephthys

Mummy of a woman named Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
'Earhart Mystery Opened Anew' and 'Irate Woman' news clippings

'Earhart Mystery Opened Anew' and 'Irate Woman' news clippings

Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Ahmose

Coffin of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
918. Collecting Remains of the Dead

918. Collecting Remains of the Dead

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Ameny

Coffin of Ameny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu

Mummy of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Peter, Minnesota Owney tag

St. Peter, Minnesota Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Mummy of Khnumhotep with mask and broad collar

Mummy of Khnumhotep with mask and broad collar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Mummy of Nesiamun

Mummy of Nesiamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Inscribed for Queen Ahmose

Scarab Inscribed for Queen Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1491 BCE

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. 874 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 3070126 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:28 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.