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 “Model of a Slaughter House” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 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.
Model of a Slaughter House

Model of a Slaughter House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Anabaena licheniformis

Anabaena licheniformis

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a Porch and Garden

Model of a Porch and Garden

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model of a House

Model of a House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.

Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House model, by Nayarit artist(s)

House model

Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. ex Schult.

Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. ex Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House model, by Nayarit artist(s)

House model

Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis cataclasta Nicora

Eragrostis cataclasta Nicora

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mill

Mill

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Tramea onusta

Tramea onusta

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ischnura demorsa

Ischnura demorsa

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain, by Louis Simon Boizot

Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain

Louis Simon Boizot · 1806, modified 1818

Public domainThe Met
Telebasis salva

Telebasis salva

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The House of Bijapur, by Kamal Muhammad

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Argia extranea

Argia extranea

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Public domainThe Met
Enallagma praevarum

Enallagma praevarum

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House with Courtyard

House with Courtyard

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Ischnura demorsa

Ischnura demorsa

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406, by Samuel Colt

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Ischnura demorsa

Ischnura demorsa

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2001

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. 1021 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3863030 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 15:34 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.