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. 14 shown for “La Fileuse” — 42 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:02 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.
Peasants' interior with spinner, by Rodolphe Bresdin

Peasants' interior with spinner

Rodolphe Bresdin · 1860

Public domainThe Met
La Fileuse

La Fileuse

Artist not stated in the record · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young woman spinning thread for an arrow, by François II de Poilly

Young woman spinning thread for an arrow

François II de Poilly · 1686–1741

Public domainThe Met
Xanthium catharticum Kunth

Xanthium catharticum Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Oeuvres diverses de Lalonde décorateur et dessinateur...1. Partie.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan des Salles Publiques, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Plan des Salles Publiques

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parapolystichum effusum (Sw.) Ching var. effusum

Parapolystichum effusum (Sw.) Ching var. effusum

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl.) Spring

Selaginella marginata (Humb. & Bonpl.) Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Feb 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia peplus L.

Euphorbia peplus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elaphoglossum yungense de la Sota

Elaphoglossum yungense de la Sota

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aldama dentata La Llave ex La Llave

Aldama dentata La Llave ex La Llave

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mimosa acantholoba (Willd.) Poir.

Mimosa acantholoba (Willd.) Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2014

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 323153 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-06 03:02 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.