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 “John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:32 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.
John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment

John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Peard's 1877 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

John Peard's 1877 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

John Peard's 1873 School Tablet Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bickford N. Hemenway's 1872 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Bickford N. Hemenway's 1872 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William P. Goolman's 1874 School Desk Patent Model fragment

William P. Goolman's 1874 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Blair's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

James Blair's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Redmayne's 1875 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Thomas Redmayne's 1875 School Desk Patent Model fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fernando Dibble's 1867 School Seat Patent Model

Fernando Dibble's 1867 School Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hamilton S. McRae's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Hamilton S. McRae's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David I. Stagg's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

David I. Stagg's 1867 School Desk Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

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. 359682 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 2026-09-01 15:32 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.