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. 16 shown for “National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge” — 44 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:24 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.
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors

Fra Filippo Lippi · 1440s

Public domainThe Met
National Association of Letter Carriers Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena, by Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo di Pietro d’Angelo di Guarnieri)

Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena

Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo di Pietro d’Angelo di Guarnieri) · 1415–16

Public domainThe Met
57th Biennial Convention of National Association of Letter Carriers badge

57th Biennial Convention of National Association of Letter Carriers badge

Artist not stated in the record · August 19, 1990 - August 24, 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
NALC convention delegate badge

NALC convention delegate badge

Artist not stated in the record · September 4-9, 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1948 Delegate Miami, FL NALC Annual Convention badge

1948 Delegate Miami, FL NALC Annual Convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · October 11-16, 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
NALC convention badge

NALC convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1939 V. Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC Golden Jubilee Convention badge

1939 V. Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC Golden Jubilee Convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1941 Marie Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC National Convention badge

1941 Marie Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC National Convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cleveland, OH NALC convention badge

Cleveland, OH NALC convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Post Office Clerks convention badge from Joint Convention of Letter Carriers

Post Office Clerks convention badge from Joint Convention of Letter Carriers

Artist not stated in the record · 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1941 V. Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC National Convention badge

1941 V. Kozeluha Cleveland, OH NALC National Convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1941

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2933727 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 21:24 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.