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 “Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:24 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.
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment

Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1335–45

Public domainThe Met
Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment

Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence McVey in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre medal, by Alva Studio, American

Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence McVey in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre medal

Alva Studio, American · ca. 1920

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
Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt, by Unidentified

Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt

Unidentified · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
New York 7th Regiment Officers, by Egbert Guy Fowx, born KY 1821-died ca. 1891

New York 7th Regiment Officers

Egbert Guy Fowx, born KY 1821-died ca. 1891 · ca. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turban Helmet

Turban Helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–1st quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform

Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1914 - 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
14192-15th. Reg. Colored troops giving retreat at Camp Upton, N.Y., by Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s

14192-15th. Reg. Colored troops giving retreat at Camp Upton, N.Y.

Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1917-1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey, by Albert Bartholomé, French, 1848 - 1928

French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey

Albert Bartholomé, French, 1848 - 1928 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 2261 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. 2984854 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 00:24 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.