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. 20 shown for “Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 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.
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Great Indian Fruit Bat, by Bhawani Das

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82

Public domainThe Met
Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform, by Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933

Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Fruit, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Basket of Fruit

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Jacket

Jacket

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Silver Tureen, by Jean Siméon Chardin

The Silver Tureen

Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cap from Fruit of Islam uniform, by Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933

Cap from Fruit of Islam uniform

Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Scabbard

Dagger with Scabbard

Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27

Public domainThe Met
Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform

Hat from Fruit of Islam uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Thorton Tailor

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Thorton Tailor · c. 1956-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Penn Garment Co.

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Penn Garment Co. · 1906-1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Jacket from an S1W uniform

Jacket from an S1W uniform

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Belt from an S1W uniform

Belt from an S1W uniform

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cactus Plant in Flower

Cactus Plant in Flower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 154 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2965072 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.