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 “Mt. Zion M.E. Church, founded 1903” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:55 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.
Two Tahitian Women, by Paul Gauguin

Two Tahitian Women

Paul Gauguin · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Glass paperweight featuring Mt. Zion M.E. Church, by Mt. Zion M.E. Church, founded 1903

Glass paperweight featuring Mt. Zion M.E. Church

Mt. Zion M.E. Church, founded 1903 · 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign, by Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church, by Unidentified

Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church

Unidentified · 1915-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Glyceria elata (Nash) M.E. Jones

Glyceria elata (Nash) M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1914 to 12 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, by Dieric Bouts

Portrait of a Man

Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, by Unidentified

Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4

Unidentified · 1956-1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Broadside for a performance by Madame Sissieretta Jones, by Unidentified

Broadside for a performance by Madame Sissieretta Jones

Unidentified · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child

Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus oophorus var. caulescens (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones

Astragalus oophorus var. caulescens (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Eriogonum panguicense (M.E. Jones) Reveal

Eriogonum panguicense (M.E. Jones) Reveal

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa), by Adriaen Isenbrant

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)

Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 21 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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 296293 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 16:55 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.