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. 12 shown for “Madam Griswold's” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:28 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s - 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame De Genlir, by de Genlir, French, n.d.

Madame De Genlir

de Genlir, French, n.d. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame de Sèze, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Madame de Sèze

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Girard, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Madame Girard

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Tulp, by Cornelius Johnson, English, born London, England 1593-died Netherlands 1661

Madame Tulp

Cornelius Johnson, English, born London, England 1593-died Netherlands 1661 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Madame Unzelmann in the Part of "Nina"

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 947 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 01:28 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.