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 “Letter from Julia Jordan to G. H. Womack” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:52 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.
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Julia Jordan to G. H. Womack

Letter from Julia Jordan to G. H. Womack

Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Artist not stated in the record · January 20, 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Letter written by Nelson Jordan Jr. and Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Letter written by Nelson Jordan Jr. and Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Artist not stated in the record · February 4, 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack with an envelope

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack with an envelope

Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope

Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope

Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"

Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby, by George Romney

Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby

George Romney · 1776–78

Public domainThe Met
Telegram

Telegram

Artist not stated in the record · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Coalition Rule in Danville

Coalition Rule in Danville

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Remijia pedunculata (H. Karst.) Fluck.

Remijia pedunculata (H. Karst.) Fluck.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Poster for The Flying Ace

Poster for The Flying Ace

Artist not stated in the record · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Telegram

Telegram

Artist not stated in the record · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Telegram from Jordan on September 6, 1918

Telegram from Jordan on September 6, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1918

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. 43 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. 2447730 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 03:52 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.