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. 24 shown for “Johann Mathias Reich” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:16 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.
James Madison, by Johann Mathias Reich

James Madison

Johann Mathias Reich · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Rhodosciadium tolucense (Kunth) Mathias

Rhodosciadium tolucense (Kunth) Mathias

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by Johann Mathias Reich

Thomas Jefferson

Johann Mathias Reich · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Lomatium minimum (Mathias) Mathias

Lomatium minimum (Mathias) Mathias

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by Johann Mathias Reich

Thomas Jefferson

Johann Mathias Reich · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Rugoglobigerina reicheli var. reicheli Brönnimann, 1952

Rugoglobigerina reicheli var. reicheli Brönnimann, 1952

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Captain Isaac Hull, by Johann Mathias Reich

Captain Isaac Hull

Johann Mathias Reich · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Perissocoeleum crinoideum (Mathias & Constance) Mathias & Constance

Perissocoeleum crinoideum (Mathias & Constance) Mathias & Constance

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commodore Edward Preble (1761–1807) and his Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804, by Johann Mathias Reich

Commodore Edward Preble (1761–1807) and his Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804

Johann Mathias Reich · 1804

Public domainThe Met
Lomatium minimum (Mathias) Mathias

Lomatium minimum (Mathias) Mathias

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sansom Medal: Franklin's two great achievements, by Johann Mathias Reich

Sansom Medal: Franklin's two great achievements

Johann Mathias Reich · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Oreomyrrhis brevipes Mathias & Constance

Oreomyrrhis brevipes Mathias & Constance

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inauguration Medal of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States, 1801, by Johann Mathias Reich

Inauguration Medal of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States, 1801

Johann Mathias Reich · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cistanthe thyrsoidea (Reiche) Peralta & D.I. Ford

Cistanthe thyrsoidea (Reiche) Peralta & D.I. Ford

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portable equatorial sundial, by Johann Mathias Willebrand

Portable equatorial sundial

Johann Mathias Willebrand · ca. 1721–26

Public domainThe Met
Lomatium ciliolatum var. hooveri Mathias & Constance

Lomatium ciliolatum var. hooveri Mathias & Constance

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg / 10-ducat medal on establishment of Grand-Duchy of Frankfurt, by Johann Christian Reich

Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg / 10-ducat medal on establishment of Grand-Duchy of Frankfurt

Johann Christian Reich · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Hydrocotyle steyermarkii Mathias & Constance

Hydrocotyle steyermarkii Mathias & Constance

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Hydrocotyle lehmannii Mathias

Hydrocotyle lehmannii Mathias

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaphaunce Pistol Made for Wilhelm, Duke of Kurland

Snaphaunce Pistol Made for Wilhelm, Duke of Kurland

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1615

Public domainThe Met
Cryptantha cf. subamplexicaulis (Phil.) Reiche

Cryptantha cf. subamplexicaulis (Phil.) Reiche

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein (1611–1684)

Halberd of Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein (1611–1684)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1632

Public domainThe Met
Cryptantha cf. subamplexicaulis (Phil.) Reiche

Cryptantha cf. subamplexicaulis (Phil.) Reiche

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1925

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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 10687 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-03 22:16 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.