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 Letelier Sr.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:43 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.
Spoon, by John Letelier Sr.

Spoon

John Letelier Sr. · 1775–1800

Public domainThe Met
Pinus cembroides Zucc.

Pinus cembroides Zucc.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skewer, by John Letelier Sr.

Skewer

John Letelier Sr. · 1775–1800

Public domainThe Met
Pinus cooperi C.E. Blanco

Pinus cooperi C.E. Blanco

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pinus chihuahuana Engelm.

Pinus chihuahuana Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., by Timothy Cole, 1852 - 1931

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.

Timothy Cole, 1852 - 1931 · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by John Letelier Sr.

Teapot

John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Public domainThe Met
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Waste Bowl, by John Letelier Sr.

Waste Bowl

John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Public domainThe Met
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Henry Major, 1889 - 1948

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creamer, by John Letelier Sr.

Creamer

John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Public domainThe Met
John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.

John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall Clock, by John Wood Sr.

Tall Clock

John Wood Sr. · 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., by Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929

John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Looking Glass, by John Elliott Sr.

Looking Glass

John Elliott Sr. · 1769–75

Public domainThe Met
John Pierpont Morgan, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

John Pierpont Morgan

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cup, by John Hull

Wine cup

John Hull · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
John Pierpont Morgan, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

John Pierpont Morgan

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
John Hunn, Chief Engineer of the Southern End, Officers of the Road, by Unidentified Artist

John Hunn, Chief Engineer of the Southern End, Officers of the Road

Unidentified Artist · 1872

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. 329 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. 268459 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 02:43 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.