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. 18 shown for “Item of ephemera with name Carrie Roby” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 22:24 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.
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Item of ephemera with name Carrie Roby

Item of ephemera with name Carrie Roby

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Letter F, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne", by Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714

Letter F, for Baluze's "Histoire générale de la Maison d'Auvergne"

Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1707–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
A Ride on an Ocean Steed, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

A Ride on an Ocean Steed

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718

Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718 · 1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
The Open Table for the Three Uppermost Classes of Men of Lower Austria, by Christian Engelbrecht, German, 1672–1753

The Open Table for the Three Uppermost Classes of Men of Lower Austria

Christian Engelbrecht, German, 1672–1753 · 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector, by Johann G. Racine

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector

Johann G. Racine · case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Placard stating "I AM A MAN" carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March

Placard stating "I AM A MAN" carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March

Artist not stated in the record · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with a Poem on Wine, by Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi

Cup with a Poem on Wine

Ibn Sukkara al-Hashimi · second half 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Bottle with masked figure, by Nasca artist(s)

Bottle with masked figure

Nasca artist(s) · 200–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Palma with textile motif, by Classic Veracruz artist(s)

Palma with textile motif

Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 800–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II, by Paser

Shabti of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II

Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stela of Dedu

Stela of Dedu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1952 B.C.

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. 69 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. 7484882 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 2026-09-09 22:24 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.