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. 13 shown for “Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church” — 41 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:15 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 Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

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
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
Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, by Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842

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

Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842 · 1956-1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
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
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mount Carmel Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 83, by Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876

The Mount Carmel Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 83

Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876 · May 22, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 208340 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 15:15 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.