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 “Miss L. E. M. Jones” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:02 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.
Alphabet book design (Letters C and K), by Miss L. E. M. Jones

Alphabet book design (Letters C and K)

Miss L. E. M. Jones · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Bromus rubens L.

Bromus rubens L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott

Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Eremocrinum albomarginatum (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones

Eremocrinum albomarginatum (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre

Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 27/6/98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Elements

Jewelry Elements

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Justicia ovata E. Mey.

Justicia ovata E. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Group of B.M. F 308

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Group of B.M. F 308 · ca. 340–330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana saponaria L.

Gentiana saponaria L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Violin, by Carlo Antonio Testore

Violin

Carlo Antonio Testore · 1737

Public domainThe Met
Poa pratensis L.

Poa pratensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/11/37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus trichopodus var. lonchus (M.E. Jones) Barneby

Astragalus trichopodus var. lonchus (M.E. Jones) Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John, by Neroccio de' Landi

Saint John

Neroccio de' Landi · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Malachra capitata (L.) L.

Malachra capitata (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Lemna minor L.

Lemna minor L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, by Alfred Sisley

View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant

Alfred Sisley · 1876

Public domainThe Met
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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. 322 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2990488 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 2026-09-04 15:02 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.