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 “Letter from Clara Booth to Mary Slade” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:07 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Letter from Clara Booth to Mary Slade

Letter from Clara Booth to Mary Slade

Artist not stated in the record · January 23, 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Oatmeal Drop Cookies Mrs. Schindler" item of ephemera

"Oatmeal Drop Cookies Mrs. Schindler" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · January 23, 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rheubarb Conserve, Ham Loaf" item of ephemera

"Rheubarb Conserve, Ham Loaf" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rocheport, Missouri RFD patrons' names book

Rocheport, Missouri RFD patrons' names book

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Cousin Ceres and Her Serious Comments on Cooking" item of ephemera

"Cousin Ceres and Her Serious Comments on Cooking" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Good Things to Eat" item of ephemera

"Good Things to Eat" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Raisin Pie" item of ephemera

"Raisin Pie" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Canned Corn" item of ephemera

"Canned Corn" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Recipe for Sour Cream Mayonnaise" item of ephemera

"Recipe for Sour Cream Mayonnaise" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Homemade Christmas Candies" item of ephemera

"Homemade Christmas Candies" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Valentine Cookies" item of ephemera

"Valentine Cookies" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1155686 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 01:07 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.