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. 24 shown for “Length of wool Calimanco” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 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.
Length of wool Calimanco

Length of wool Calimanco

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Poncho

Poncho

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of wool Calimanco

Length of wool Calimanco

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Red, white, and blue striped tie worn by Melvin Van Peebles, by Bert Pulitzer Company, Inc., American, founded 1975

Red, white, and blue striped tie worn by Melvin Van Peebles

Bert Pulitzer Company, Inc., American, founded 1975 · 2000 - 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length

Length

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress, by Unidentified

Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress

Unidentified · 1960s - 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of wool damask

Length of wool damask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform trousers

Letter carrier uniform trousers

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of wool damask

Length of wool damask

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Green coat worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Green coat worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Length of woven wool and silk, by Christopher Dresser

Length of woven wool and silk

Christopher Dresser · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Blue wool tweed jacket and skirt, by Pasternak, American, 1903 - 1961

Blue wool tweed jacket and skirt

Pasternak, American, 1903 - 1961 · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Gray wool skirt by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Gray wool skirt by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume

Costume

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Brown pinstripe suit jacket and skirt, by Unidentified

Brown pinstripe suit jacket and skirt

Unidentified · ca. 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid, by Painter of Philadelphia 2449

Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid

Painter of Philadelphia 2449 · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ensemble

Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ensemble

Ensemble

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table carpet fragment

Table carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bed cover

Bed cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 240 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3073225 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 12:15 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.