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. 24 shown for “Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:42 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.
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey

Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Badge for a representative of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

Badge for a representative of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th cent.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Badge for Prince Hall Grand Lodge F. & A. M. Massachusetts Victory Celebration

Badge for Prince Hall Grand Lodge F. & A. M. Massachusetts Victory Celebration

Artist not stated in the record · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Massachusetts Located at Boston 1904 December (Third Tuesday)

Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Massachusetts Located at Boston 1904 December (Third Tuesday)

Artist not stated in the record · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Masonic apron from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, by Unidentified

Masonic apron from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

Unidentified · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Proceedings of the Special and Annual Communications of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1914-1915

Proceedings of the Special and Annual Communications of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1914-1915

Artist not stated in the record · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Chair from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, by Unidentified

Chair from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts

Unidentified · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg, by Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Prince Hall Affiliation, founded 1873

Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg

Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Prince Hall Affiliation, founded 1873 · March 5, 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
Grand Army of the Republic, by Unidentified

Grand Army of the Republic

Unidentified · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Jersey for the Atlanta Braves worn and autographed by Hank Aaron, by Spalding, American, founded 1876

Jersey for the Atlanta Braves worn and autographed by Hank Aaron

Spalding, American, founded 1876 · 1968-1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Annibale Carracci

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button for the Grand Army of the Republic owned by Marquis Peterson

Pinback button for the Grand Army of the Republic owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Memorium ribbon for the G.U.O.O.F Lodge No. 4997

Memorium ribbon for the G.U.O.O.F Lodge No. 4997

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

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. 54 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. 3272665 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 2026-08-29 02:42 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.