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. 13 shown for “Master F. P.” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:44 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.
St. James Minor(?), by Master F. P.

St. James Minor(?)

Master F. P. · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: First Series of Vases by Different Masters, Designed by Louis Doré and Engraved by F. Brard, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Album of Prints: First Series of Vases by Different Masters, Designed by Louis Doré and Engraved by F. Brard

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sub-Committee of Management and Counsel of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (1907-1908), by Thomas P. Woodland, American

The Sub-Committee of Management and Counsel of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (1907-1908)

Thomas P. Woodland, American · January 16, 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heterohelix stenopus Masters, 1976

Heterohelix stenopus Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ficus heterophylla L. f. var. heterophylla

Ficus heterophylla L. f. var. heterophylla

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /11/44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugoglobigerina spinosa Masters, 1993

Rugoglobigerina spinosa Masters, 1993

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugoglobigerina spinosa Masters, 1993

Rugoglobigerina spinosa Masters, 1993

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ, by Master F. P.

Christ

Master F. P. · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Heterohelix sphenoides Masters, 1976

Heterohelix sphenoides Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heterohelix sphenoides Masters, 1976

Heterohelix sphenoides Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudoguembelina costellifera Masters, 1976

Pseudoguembelina costellifera Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globotruncana lunaris Masters, 1976

Globotruncana lunaris Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globotruncana lunaris Masters, 1976

Globotruncana lunaris Masters, 1976

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1966

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. 13906 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1143413 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 2026-09-01 13:44 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.