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. 16 shown for “Kamal Muhammad” — 44 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:11 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 House of Bijapur, by Kamal Muhammad

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Geniostoma hedyosmifolium (Baill.) Byng & Christenh.

Geniostoma hedyosmifolium (Baill.) Byng & Christenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthology of Persian Poetry in Oblong Format (Safina), by Sultan Muhammad Nur

Anthology of Persian Poetry in Oblong Format (Safina)

Sultan Muhammad Nur · dated 905 AH/1499–1500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Syrphophagus smithi

Syrphophagus smithi

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths, by Mir Kalan Khan

A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths

Mir Kalan Khan · ca. 1770–75

Public domainThe Met
Macrobrachium pilimanus

Macrobrachium pilimanus

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr.

Cyrtandra grayana Hillebr.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polygala chinensis L.

Polygala chinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ischaemum muticum L.

Ischaemum muticum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fuirena umbellata Rottb.

Fuirena umbellata Rottb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hyptis capitata Jacq.

Hyptis capitata Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton

Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton

Artist not stated in the record · September 28, 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

Artist not stated in the record · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headgear worn by Muhammad Ali

Headgear worn by Muhammad Ali

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Brecht. & J. Presl

Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Brecht. & J. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 1966

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 451 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 15:11 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.