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. 23 shown for “Mitre Shaped Cap” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 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.
Mitre Shaped Cap

Mitre Shaped Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Livery trimming

Livery trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre Shaped Cap

Mitre Shaped Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Newport Light Infantry Miter Cap

Newport Light Infantry Miter Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gondola prow in the shape of a doge's cap

Gondola prow in the shape of a doge's cap

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Dr. Juan Caramuel de Loblokowitz

Portrait of Dr. Juan Caramuel de Loblokowitz

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Cap crown

Cap crown

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Cap streamers

Cap streamers

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Cap streamers

Cap streamers

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cap streamer

Cap streamer

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze pilos (helmet of conical shape)

Bronze pilos (helmet of conical shape)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Cap crown

Cap crown

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Cap

Cap

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet

Limestone head of a man wearing a helmet

Artist not stated in the record · middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

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. 291 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 37867 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 2026-09-04 23:21 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.