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. 12 shown for “Norelius, Oliver” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Patent Model of a Sheet-Feed Apparatus with Vacuum Pipes, by Norelius, Oliver

Patent Model of a Sheet-Feed Apparatus with Vacuum Pipes

Norelius, Oliver · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andrew Oliver, by John Singleton Copley, 3 Jul 1738 - 9 Sep 1815

Andrew Oliver

John Singleton Copley, 3 Jul 1738 - 9 Sep 1815 · c. 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olive Tree, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Olive Tree, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 7, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oliver P. Morton, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Oliver P. Morton

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., by Clinedinst Studio, active 1915 - 1934?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Clinedinst Studio, active 1915 - 1934?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coreopsis glaucescens Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.

Coreopsis glaucescens Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1862 or 3 Oct 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coreopsis glaucescens Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.

Coreopsis glaucescens Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1862 or 3 Oct 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parapolydora fastigiata (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Parapolydora fastigiata (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · Late 1957

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12428 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-03 21:20 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.