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. 19 shown for “Needle case body” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:32 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.
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Needle case body

Needle case body

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needle case and bobbin

Needle case and bobbin

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case body

Needle case body

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needle case and bobbin

Needle case and bobbin

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case body

Needle case body

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goa Stone and Gold Case

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case body (fragment)

Needle case body (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thimble case, by Meissen Manufactory

Thimble case

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Needle case body and cap

Needle case body and cap

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needle Case

Needle Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Body for acupuncture needle case (set with F1917.539)

Body for acupuncture needle case (set with F1917.539)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needle case, by Meissen Manufactory

Needle case

Meissen Manufactory · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Indicator, Temperature, Free Air, by Weston Electric Instrument Corp.

Indicator, Temperature, Free Air

Weston Electric Instrument Corp.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needle case, by Meissen Manufactory

Needle case

Meissen Manufactory · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case, by Meissen Manufactory

Needle case

Meissen Manufactory · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case, by Meissen Manufactory

Needle case

Meissen Manufactory · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case

Needle case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Needle case

Needle case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 855 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. 42256 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:32 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.