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 “Mr. Brown's Thanksgiving Sermon” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:43 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.

Mr. Brown's Thanksgiving Sermon

Mr. Brown's Thanksgiving Sermon

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sermon preached at Haverhill in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell

Sermon preached at Haverhill in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Sermon, by Charles Rauscher, b. 1841

Le Sermon

Charles Rauscher, b. 1841 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Football program for Booker T. Washington High School, by Unidentified

Football program for Booker T. Washington High School

Unidentified · November 27, 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sermon of a Holy Abbot, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Sermon of a Holy Abbot

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:11:14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siamang

Siamang

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:11:14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red-fronted Lemur

Red-fronted Lemur

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:11:14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red-fronted Lemur

Red-fronted Lemur

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:11:14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thanksgiving Day – The Dinner, by Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA

Thanksgiving Day – The Dinner

Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · November 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thanksgiving Day--Hanging up the Musket/Thanksgiving Day--The Church Porch, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 23, 1865, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Thanksgiving Day--Hanging up the Musket/Thanksgiving Day--The Church Porch, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 23, 1865

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thanksgiving-Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone, by Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA

Thanksgiving-Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone

Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · December 3, 1864

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. 168147 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 18:43 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.