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. 22 shown for “List of attendees of the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 16:52 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.
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
List of attendees of the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman

List of attendees of the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman

Artist not stated in the record · June 3, 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Bottle used to christen the S.S. Harriet Tubman, by Unidentified

Bottle used to christen the S.S. Harriet Tubman

Unidentified · June 3, 1944

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

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Newspaper clipping with a portrait of Harriet Tubman, by John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s

Newspaper clipping with a portrait of Harriet Tubman

John G. Darby, active 1830s - 1860s · ca. 1868; printed 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button for the Harriet Tubman Home

Pinback button for the Harriet Tubman Home

Artist not stated in the record · 1954

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
Matte collodion print of Harriet Tubman

Matte collodion print of Harriet Tubman

Artist not stated in the record · 1871-1876; printed later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Postcard of Harriet Tubman, Nelson Davis, and daughter Gertie

Postcard of Harriet Tubman, Nelson Davis, and daughter Gertie

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887; printed 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart

Photographic postcard of Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, by Clodion (Claude Michel)

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon

Clodion (Claude Michel) · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Albumen print of Harriet Tubman

Albumen print of Harriet Tubman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1908; printed ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Companions of Rinaldo, by Nicolas Poussin

The Companions of Rinaldo

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
Silk lace and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria, by Unidentified

Silk lace and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria

Unidentified · ca. 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, by Annibale Carracci

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness

Annibale Carracci · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman, by Unidentified

Handkerchief owned by Harriet Tubman

Unidentified · 1870s - early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Washington's Resignation, by Alexander Lawson

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506), by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 1519

Public domainThe Met
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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2988831 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 16:52 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.