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. 22 shown for “Marsh” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:24 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.
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stegosaurus stenops Marsh, 1887

Stegosaurus stenops Marsh, 1887

Artist not stated in the record · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Slippers, by Marsh

Slippers

Marsh · 1845–65

Public domainThe Met
Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877

Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Bowl

Marsh Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boavus occidentalis Marsh, 1871

Boavus occidentalis Marsh, 1871

Artist not stated in the record · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877

Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile, marsh scene

Tile, marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oreosaurus vagans Marsh, 1872

Oreosaurus vagans Marsh, 1872

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oreosaurus microdus Marsh, 1872

Oreosaurus microdus Marsh, 1872

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oreosaurus minutus Marsh, 1872

Oreosaurus minutus Marsh, 1872

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glyptosaurus nodosus Marsh, 1871

Glyptosaurus nodosus Marsh, 1871

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polypogon australis Brongn.

Polypogon australis Brongn.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glyptosaurus brevidens Marsh, 1871

Glyptosaurus brevidens Marsh, 1871

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from marsh scene

Tile from marsh scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl Decorated with Marsh Scenes

Bowl Decorated with Marsh Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 452 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 15301 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 04:24 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.