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. 22 shown for “J. Meyer” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:44 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.
Coach #221, by Brewster & Co.

Coach #221

Brewster & Co. · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus compositus (Poir.) Merr.

Sporobolus compositus (Poir.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Palais de Znamensky près de Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Palais de Znamensky près de Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Clemens

Samuel Clemens

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Palais à Strelna, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Palais à Strelna, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus

Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Palais Anglais à Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Palais Anglais à Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Palais de S.A.I.Mgr. Le Duc de Leuchtenberg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Palais de S.A.I.Mgr. Le Duc de Leuchtenberg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Le Palais de S.A.I. Le Prince Grand duc Michel a Hamenny-Ostrof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Palais de S.A.I. Le Prince Grand duc Michel a Hamenny-Ostrof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell x C. fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell x C. fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Cottage D'Alexandrie près de Péterof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Cottage D'Alexandrie près de Péterof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustatum (Willd.) R.T. Clausen

Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustatum (Willd.) R.T. Clausen

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Café au Jardin d'été à St. Pétersbourg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

Le Café au Jardin d'été à St. Pétersbourg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Colonnade du Palais a Tzarskoé-Sélo, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg", by J. Meyer

La Colonnade du Palais a Tzarskoé-Sélo, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson

Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard, by Andreas Meyer

Tankard

Andreas Meyer · mounts ca. 1608–47, amber 19th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Joseph (Missouri), by Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909

St. Joseph (Missouri)

Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable, by Gustave Courbet

Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable

Gustave Courbet · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Nauvoo (Mississippi), by Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909

Nauvoo (Mississippi)

Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Euclea natalensis A. DC.

Euclea natalensis A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2002

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. 223 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1190412 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 21:44 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.