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. 21 shown for “Myron H. Kimball” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:56 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.
Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans, by Myron H. Kimball

Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans

Myron H. Kimball · 1863–64

Public domainThe Met
Emancipated Slaves, by Myron H. Kimball, active 1850s - 1860s

Emancipated Slaves

Myron H. Kimball, active 1850s - 1860s · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks, by Myron H. Kimball

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks

Myron H. Kimball · December 1863

Public domainThe Met
Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored, by Unidentified Artist

Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored

Unidentified Artist · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis

Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Herber Chase Kimball and Jedediah Morgan Grant, by W. H. Gibbs, 1850 - 1860?

Herber Chase Kimball and Jedediah Morgan Grant

W. H. Gibbs, 1850 - 1860? · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parlor Scene, by Alonzo Myron Kimball

Parlor Scene

Alonzo Myron Kimball · 1906

Public domainThe Met
Dendroica magnolia

Dendroica magnolia

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys

Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Calidris minutilla

Calidris minutilla

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with abstract decoration

Vase with abstract decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, by Auguste Renoir

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums

Auguste Renoir · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Piranga flava hepatica

Piranga flava hepatica

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl and saucer with lotus decoration

Tea bowl and saucer with lotus decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Piranga ludoviciana

Piranga ludoviciana

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Dendroica petechia sonorana

Dendroica petechia sonorana

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co., by W.S. Kimball & Co.

Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Wilsonia pusilla pileolata

Wilsonia pusilla pileolata

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co., by W.S. Kimball & Co.

Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

Public domainThe Met
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. 84 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 893665 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-10 10:56 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.