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. 23 shown for “Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:45 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.
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Marble stele (grave marker) of a young girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wildflower, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912

Wildflower

Jonathan Scott Hartley, born Albany, NY 1845-died New York City 1912 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sepulchral Monument, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Sepulchral Monument

Unknown, Italian · 1620-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a little girl

Marble grave stele of a little girl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sleeping Children, by William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874

Sleeping Children

William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · modeled 1859, carved 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele with a family group

Marble grave stele with a family group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

NOUVEAU LIVRE de Principes d’Ornements Particulierement pour trouver un nombre infini de forms qui en dependent. d’Après les Desseins de C. Gillot Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Huquier

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a youth

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Stone Frog and Farm House, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Sketch of Stone Frog and Farm House

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a youth from a marble stele (grave marker)

Head of a youth from a marble stele (grave marker)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Graves of 92nd Div - Pont du Mosson, Meuthe et Moselle. Nov. 24, 1918

Graves of 92nd Div - Pont du Mosson, Meuthe et Moselle. Nov. 24, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · November 24,1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble fragment of a stele (grave marker) of a youth

Marble fragment of a stele (grave marker) of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown

Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) of Phainippe

Marble stele (grave marker) of Phainippe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Laura Brown, by Anne Whitney, born Watertown, MA 1821-died Boston, MA 1915

Laura Brown

Anne Whitney, born Watertown, MA 1821-died Boston, MA 1915 · 1859

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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4060382 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 03:45 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.