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 “NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:00 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.
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.

Artist not stated in the record · February 15, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with a Village in the Distance, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Landscape with a Village in the Distance

Jacob van Ruisdael · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta hydria (water jar), by Painter of London B 76

Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Painter of London B 76 · ca. 560–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · February 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Membership Application for the NAACP, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

Membership Application for the NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · early 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Painter of the Woolly Satyrs

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover

Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 6, 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago, by National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · October 23, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble male figure

Marble male figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2400–2300 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
House of Representatives anti-lynching cover

House of Representatives anti-lynching cover

Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1936

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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1081158 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 17:00 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.