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. 17 shown for “J. Ferry” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:02 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.
Evening shoes, by J. Ferry

Evening shoes

J. Ferry · 1880–90

Public domainThe Met
Dendroica nigrescens

Dendroica nigrescens

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening slippers, by J. Ferry

Evening slippers

J. Ferry · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Wilsonia pusilla chryseola

Wilsonia pusilla chryseola

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening slippers, by J. Ferry

Evening slippers

J. Ferry · 1885–90

Public domainThe Met
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii californicus

Phalaenoptilus nuttallii californicus

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Public domainThe Met
Contopus borealis

Contopus borealis

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dinner dress, by House of Worth

Dinner dress

House of Worth · 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Zonotrichia atricapilla

Zonotrichia atricapilla

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Oreohelix yavapai

Oreohelix yavapai

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Public domainThe Met
Polyscias sp.

Polyscias sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polyscias sp.

Polyscias sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipilo erythrophthalmus falcifer

Pipilo erythrophthalmus falcifer

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vireo huttoni huttoni

Vireo huttoni huttoni

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1905

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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1190664 matched · 40 examined · 30 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 2026-09-03 06:02 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.