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 “New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:49 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.
Mirror, by Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat)

Mirror

Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14

New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14

Artist not stated in the record · October 5, 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue

Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with floral roundels

Mirror with floral roundels

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with dragons

Mirror with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405

Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405

Artist not stated in the record · November 14, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Public domainThe Met
Why Born A Slave? (Pourquoi Naitre Esclave?)

Why Born A Slave? (Pourquoi Naitre Esclave?)

Artist not stated in the record · (1868, cast by 1963)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saint John (Study for "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon"), by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875

Virgin and Child with Saint John (Study for "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon")

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875 · (1864/cast after 1890)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

Public domainThe Met
The American Apollo magazine

The American Apollo magazine

Artist not stated in the record · March 16, 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Black silk velvet coat with white fur collar and sleeves, by Lord & Taylor, American, founded 1926

Black silk velvet coat with white fur collar and sleeves

Lord & Taylor, American, founded 1926 · 1930s-1940s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia, by John Targee

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia

John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato

Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1341–42

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. 10032 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. 94 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:49 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.