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. 17 shown for “Man's Shoulder or Hip Cloth (Hinggi)” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:43 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.
Man's Shoulder or Hip Cloth (Hinggi)

Man's Shoulder or Hip Cloth (Hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Ludovico Carracci

The Lamentation

Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Public domainThe Met
Three Bedouin Men, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Three Bedouin Men

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Man's mantle (hinggi)

Man's mantle (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fabric Armor and Helmet with Buddhist and Taoist symbols

Fabric Armor and Helmet with Buddhist and Taoist symbols

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a man seated, by Unidentified

Carte-de-visite of a man seated

Unidentified · 1865-1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Armor, by Kolman Helmschmid

Half Armor

Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1510–20 and later

Public domainThe Met
Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves), by George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804

Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves)

George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804 · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man

Man

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Black velvet dress with glass bead embellishments, by Unidentified

Black velvet dress with glass bead embellishments

Unidentified · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of a Man Carrying a Basket, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketch of a Man Carrying a Basket, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1890–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pink knit top and matching mid length skirt, by Unidentified

Pink knit top and matching mid length skirt

Unidentified · 1970s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hinggi (ceremonial men's wrapper)

Hinggi (ceremonial men's wrapper)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume for yellow brick road character in The Wiz on Broadway, by Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian American, 1930 - 2014

Costume for yellow brick road character in The Wiz on Broadway

Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian American, 1930 - 2014 · 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic

World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918

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. 116 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 317862 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 21:43 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.