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 “Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:38 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.
Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of soldiers of L Company, 25th Infantry

Photographic postcard of soldiers of L Company, 25th Infantry

Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
50c Beer revenue stamp single

50c Beer revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab with the Throne Names of Thutmoses III and Hatshepsut

Scarab with the Throne Names of Thutmoses III and Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ruins and Figure Sketches, Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins and Figure Sketches, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April or May 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
8c Zion plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

8c Zion plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Peoples Drug Company, A. J. Latimer, Prop., Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Graycraft Card Co., American, active mid-20th century

Peoples Drug Company, A. J. Latimer, Prop., Tulsa, Oklahoma

Graycraft Card Co., American, active mid-20th century · mid-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
8c Zion plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

8c Zion plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · September 11, 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Living

Scarab Inscribed Maatkare (Hatshepsut) Living

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ruins of the Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21, by Unidentified

Ruins of the Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21

Unidentified · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed for Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
5c brick red Jefferson Type I single

5c brick red Jefferson Type I single

Artist not stated in the record · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Picture postcard of the Roger Williams University President's Mansion

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Artist not stated in the record · 1907; printed 1907-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a wooden building

Photograph of a wooden building

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

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. 39 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. 7469888 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 22:38 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.