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 “Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:18 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.
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Vielka from the opera "Vielka"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Set

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Norma from the opera "Norma"

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Norma from the opera "Norma"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Donna Anna from the opera "Don Juan"

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Donna Anna from the opera "Don Juan"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Marie from the opera "Die Tochter des Regiments" (The Daughter of the Regiment)

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Marie from the opera "Die Tochter des Regiments" (The Daughter of the Regiment)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Agathe from the opera "Der Freischutze" (The Freischutz)

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Agathe from the opera "Der Freischutze" (The Freischutz)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Valentine from the opera "Die Hugenotten" (The Huguenots)

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Valentine from the opera "Die Hugenotten" (The Huguenots)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Amine from the opera "Die Nachtwandlerin" (The Somnanbule)

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Amine from the opera "Die Nachtwandlerin" (The Somnanbule)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Alice from the opera "Robert der Teufel"

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Alice from the opera "Robert der Teufel"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Singer in Concert-Toilette

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Singer in Concert-Toilette

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jenny Lind Paper Doll Set

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1431570 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-06 15:18 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.