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. 21 shown for “John Badger Bachelder” — 49 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:24 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.
The Army of the Potomac, by John Badger Bachelder

The Army of the Potomac

John Badger Bachelder · 1863

Public domainThe Met
1849 - John Bachelder's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine

1849 - John Bachelder's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine

Artist not stated in the record · 1849-05-08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in C, by John R. Nickels

Clarinet in C

John R. Nickels · 1839–41

Public domainThe Met
Lynx rufus californicus

Lynx rufus californicus

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flute, by Alfred G. Badger

Flute

Alfred G. Badger · 1860–65

Public domainThe Met
Eriocoma pinetorum ined.

Eriocoma pinetorum ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Barker (1707–1787), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

John Barker (1707–1787)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.

Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint John, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Holy Family with Saint John

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1754–62

Public domainThe Met
Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.

Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint John, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Holy Family with Saint John

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1754–62

Public domainThe Met
Cymopterus cinerarius A. Gray

Cymopterus cinerarius A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Loves of the Fox and The Badger, or The Coalition Wedding., by Thomas Rowlandson

The Loves of the Fox and The Badger, or The Coalition Wedding.

Thomas Rowlandson · January 7, 1784

Public domainThe Met
Perityle megalocephala (S. Watson) J.F. Macbr. var. megalocephala

Perityle megalocephala (S. Watson) J.F. Macbr. var. megalocephala

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prudence, by Andrea della Robbia

Prudence

Andrea della Robbia · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Chaenactis douglasii Hook. & Arn.

Chaenactis douglasii Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji, by Unidentified artist

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji

Unidentified artist · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chenopodium leptophyllum (Moq.) Nutt. ex S. Watson

Chenopodium leptophyllum (Moq.) Nutt. ex S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eriogonum wrightii Torr. ex Benth. in DC.

Eriogonum wrightii Torr. ex Benth. in DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eriogonum umbellatum var. versicolor S. Stokes

Eriogonum umbellatum var. versicolor S. Stokes

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Osmorhiza occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr.

Osmorhiza occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2000

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260986 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 07:24 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.