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. 13 shown for “MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole” — 41 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:28 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.
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · 1908-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume créoles

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume créoles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite of a woman in Martinique

Carte-de-visite of a woman in Martinique

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rudgea citrifolia (Sw.) K. Schum.

Rudgea citrifolia (Sw.) K. Schum.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
26. - Type de Mulâtresse de la Martinique, by Compagnie antilles, French, 1900 - 1910

26. - Type de Mulâtresse de la Martinique

Compagnie antilles, French, 1900 - 1910 · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Megalastrum caribaeum (Desv.) R.C. Moran et al.

Megalastrum caribaeum (Desv.) R.C. Moran et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Megalastrum caribaeum (Desv.) R.C. Moran et al.

Megalastrum caribaeum (Desv.) R.C. Moran et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hemionitis palmata L.

Hemionitis palmata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Asplenium serratum L.

Asplenium serratum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton

Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 1884 and 1900

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7160199 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-06 17:28 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.