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. 12 shown for “Invoice and receipt for room and board of Sarah and Harriet Rouzee and "servant"” — 41 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:11 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.
Invoice and receipt for room and board of Sarah and Harriet Rouzee and "servant"

Invoice and receipt for room and board of Sarah and Harriet Rouzee and "servant"

Artist not stated in the record · October 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt for room and board provided by Mary R. Carter

Payment receipt for room and board provided by Mary R. Carter

Artist not stated in the record · September 12, 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Invoice and receipt for payment by Edward Rouzee

Invoice and receipt for payment by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · February 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel

Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel

Artist not stated in the record · September 8, 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia

Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia

Artist not stated in the record · January 18, 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee

Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt for the hire of a woman enslaved and owned by Edward Rouzee

Payment receipt for the hire of a woman enslaved and owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · April 14, 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt for the hiring of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Payment receipt for the hiring of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · January 2, 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Receipt for purchase of a man named Ned by Edward Rouzee from an estate sale

Receipt for purchase of a man named Ned by Edward Rouzee from an estate sale

Artist not stated in the record · September 18, 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Invoice for weaving and the hiring of an enslaved woman, Philice

Invoice for weaving and the hiring of an enslaved woman, Philice

Artist not stated in the record · 1805-1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Payment receipt for loan of Milly and her children, owned by Apphia Rouzee

Payment receipt for loan of Milly and her children, owned by Apphia Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · March 14, 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Receipt for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpeper"

Receipt for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpeper"

Artist not stated in the record · January 1808

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3131568 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:11 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.