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 “Locket” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:53 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.
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · 1706

Public domainThe Met
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–40

Public domainThe Met
Locket with dictionary

Locket with dictionary

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket, by Hartmann

Locket

Hartmann · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lover's Eye locket

Lover's Eye locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Locket with photographs of Harriette and Harry T. Moore

Locket with photographs of Harriette and Harry T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · between 1800 and 1999

Public domainThe Met
Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Parure (Pair of bracelets, pair of earrings, locket)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Locket in the form of a heart

Locket in the form of a heart

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Postal Inspector John Clum’s retirement watch fob

Postal Inspector John Clum’s retirement watch fob

Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Locket

Locket

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Mourning Locket for A. R., by Unidentified

Mourning Locket for A. R.

Unidentified · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Locket, by Unidentified

Locket

Unidentified · 1600-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Locket

Locket

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Chordeiles minor henryi

Chordeiles minor henryi

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1917

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. 104 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. 147 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 01:53 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.