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. 23 shown for “Joseph Locke” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 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.
Vase, by Joseph Locke

Vase

Joseph Locke · 1883–87

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale with two transactions for an enslaved man named Joe or Joseph

Bill of sale with two transactions for an enslaved man named Joe or Joseph

Artist not stated in the record · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Erotes and Animals

Casket with Erotes and Animals

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Walls of Miraflores Lock, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

Walls of Miraflores Lock

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra box with dragons amid clouds

Sutra box with dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
The Guard Gate, Gatun, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

The Guard Gate, Gatun

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
The Gates of Pedro Miguel, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

The Gates of Pedro Miguel

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)

Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Vicia caroliniana Walter

Vicia caroliniana Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Story of Golden Locks, by Seymour Joseph Guy

Story of Golden Locks

Seymour Joseph Guy · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus deltoides L.

Dianthus deltoides L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Filing cabinet (cartonnier) (part of a set), by Joseph Baumhauer

Filing cabinet (cartonnier) (part of a set)

Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Schermack stamp vending machines, by Schermack Products Corporation

Schermack stamp vending machines

Schermack Products Corporation · 1950-1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with Warriors and Mythological Figures

Casket with Warriors and Mythological Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis dillenii Jacq.

Oxalis dillenii Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Gun, by Louis Jaley

Flintlock Gun

Louis Jaley · dated 1735

Public domainThe Met
Avena sativa L.

Avena sativa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Captain Joseph Anthony, by Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02

Captain Joseph Anthony

Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tul-lock-chísh-ko, Drinks the Juice of the Stone, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Tul-lock-chísh-ko, Drinks the Juice of the Stone

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of Moulins, by Henri-Joseph Harpignies

A View of Moulins

Henri-Joseph Harpignies · ca. 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
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. 133 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 88139 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:19 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.