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. 12 shown for “Mithuna (Loving Couple) (Study Collection)” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:39 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Love and friendship

Love and friendship

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera neomexicana (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve var. neomexicana

Packera neomexicana (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve var. neomexicana

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera neomexicana (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve var. neomexicana

Packera neomexicana (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve var. neomexicana

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Ten Buttons

Set of Ten Buttons

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gathering grapes, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Gathering grapes

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1632

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Take me up with you dearie words by Junie McCree ; music by Albert Von Tilzer, by Von Tilzer, Albert

Take me up with you dearie words by Junie McCree ; music by Albert Von Tilzer

Von Tilzer, Albert · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strawberry Bush-"Hearts Bustin' with Love" (Euonymus Americanus), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Strawberry Bush-"Hearts Bustin' with Love" (Euonymus Americanus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, Summer, Fall., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Spring, Summer, Fall.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Love-in-a-mist, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Love-in-a-mist

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Invitiation for a event hosted by the Black Studies Department of UNCC, by University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Afro-American Studies, American, founded 1976

Invitiation for a event hosted by the Black Studies Department of UNCC

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Afro-American Studies, American, founded 1976 · 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The aeroplane rag and two-step by Jack Glogau, by Glogau, Jack 1886-1953

The aeroplane rag and two-step by Jack Glogau

Glogau, Jack 1886-1953 · 1913

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6465792 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 03:39 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.