OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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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. 12 shown for “National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:42 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Buzz Aldrin's Footprint on the Surface of the Moon, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Buzz Aldrin's Footprint on the Surface of the Moon

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1969

Public domainThe Met
[Lunar Surface Photographed by Surveyor V], by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

[Lunar Surface Photographed by Surveyor V]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1967

Public domainThe Met
Lunar Panorama #158, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Lunar Panorama #158

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1967

Public domainThe Met
Crater Aristarchus, Schroter's Valley, and Vicinity, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Crater Aristarchus, Schroter's Valley, and Vicinity

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1967

Public domainThe Met
Close-Up of Crater Copernicus, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Close-Up of Crater Copernicus

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · November 23, 1966

Public domainThe Met
[Panorama of Moon Surface, from Apollo 16 Mission], by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

[Panorama of Moon Surface, from Apollo 16 Mission]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · April 1972

Public domainThe Met
Far Side of the Moon at Apolune, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Far Side of the Moon at Apolune

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1967

Public domainThe Met
[President Richard M. Nixon Welcomes the Apollo 11 Astronauts Aboard Recovery Ship USS Hornet], by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

[President Richard M. Nixon Welcomes the Apollo 11 Astronauts Aboard Recovery Ship USS Hornet]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1969

Public domainThe Met
[Astronauts in Lifeboat After Apollo 11 Splashdown], by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

[Astronauts in Lifeboat After Apollo 11 Splashdown]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1969

Public domainThe Met
Apollo 11 Command and Service Modules Photographed from the Lunar Module in Orbit, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Apollo 11 Command and Service Modules Photographed from the Lunar Module in Orbit

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1969

Public domainThe Met
Crater Kepler and Vicinity, by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Crater Kepler and Vicinity

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · 1967

Public domainThe Met
Buzz Aldrin with Apollo 11 Lunar Module on the Moon, by Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin with Apollo 11 Lunar Module on the Moon

Neil Armstrong · 1969

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. 40 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:42 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.