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 “Martin Kammerer” — 45 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:47 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.
Wheellock Sporting Rifle, by Martin Kammerer

Wheellock Sporting Rifle

Martin Kammerer · dated 1658

Public domainThe Met
Worthenocrinus paterus Kammer & Ausich

Worthenocrinus paterus Kammer & Ausich

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheellock Rifle with Spanner, Shot Extracting Tool, and Shooting Patch, by Martin Kammerer

Wheellock Rifle with Spanner, Shot Extracting Tool, and Shooting Patch

Martin Kammerer · ca. 1665

Public domainThe Met
Hypselocrinus vansanti Kammer & Ausich

Hypselocrinus vansanti Kammer & Ausich

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of ibex

Figure of ibex

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hylodecrinus robustus Kammer & Ausich

Hylodecrinus robustus Kammer & Ausich

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeweled Snuffbox

Jeweled Snuffbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Cyathocrinites deroseri Kammer & Gahn, 2003

Cyathocrinites deroseri Kammer & Gahn, 2003

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Actinocrinites probolos Ausich & Kammer

Actinocrinites probolos Ausich & Kammer

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thesium subsucculentum (Kämmer) J.C. Manning & F. Forest

Thesium subsucculentum (Kämmer) J.C. Manning & F. Forest

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Botryococcus braunii

Botryococcus braunii

Artist not stated in the record · -- Aug ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basilodon woodwardi Kammerer et al., 2011

Basilodon woodwardi Kammerer et al., 2011

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calamintha thymifolia (Scop.) Rchb.

Calamintha thymifolia (Scop.) Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /8/83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veronica fruticulosa L.

Veronica fruticulosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphaeralcea subhastata subsp. martii (Cockerell) Kearney

Sphaeralcea subhastata subsp. martii (Cockerell) Kearney

Artist not stated in the record · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scabiosa wulfenii Roem. & Schult.

Scabiosa wulfenii Roem. & Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1887

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 38906 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 2026-08-28 20:47 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.