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 “Linen bag” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 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.
Linen bag

Linen bag

Artist not stated in the record · 525–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sewing bag, by H.E. Verran Company, New York, NY, USA

Sewing bag

H.E. Verran Company, New York, NY, USA · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag of Natron from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Bag of Natron from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Mailbag associated with PMG Return J. Meigs, Jr.

Mailbag associated with PMG Return J. Meigs, Jr.

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

Public domainThe Met
The English Gamekeeper, by John Crossley & Sons Ltd, English, 1850–1869

The English Gamekeeper

John Crossley & Sons Ltd, English, 1850–1869 · 1859–1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

Public domainThe Met
Carpet bag

Carpet bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

Public domainThe Met
Parchment with unfinished needle lace

Parchment with unfinished needle lace

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 164 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 35866 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 05:00 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.