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. 24 shown for “Opening Page from a Kalila wa Dimna” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 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.
Opening Page from a Kalila wa Dimna

Opening Page from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ocean, by Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784

Ocean

Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), by Jean Henri Riesener

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Secretary Gideon Welles to his son Thomas

Letter from Secretary Gideon Welles to his son Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · March 5, 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu, by Various artists

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu

Various artists · 1666–80

Public domainThe Met
Sale agreements for two enslaved persons and a house in colonial New Spain

Sale agreements for two enslaved persons and a house in colonial New Spain

Artist not stated in the record · April 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Ja'far Baisunghuri

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Festuca caprina Nees

Festuca caprina Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Ja'far Baisunghuri

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri · dated 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope

Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope

Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an", by Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri · 706 AH/1306–7 CE

Public domainThe Met
Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · June 30, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 1 of 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Post Office Act of 1792 publication

Post Office Act of 1792 publication

Artist not stated in the record · 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 2 of 2

"Raisin Recipes" item of ephemera page 2 of 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pamphlet advertising a Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee march, by Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, American

Pamphlet advertising a Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee march

Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, American · April 5, 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Vuë de la Place du Château Impérial à Nuremburg (View of the Imperial Castle Square in Nuremburg), by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

Vuë de la Place du Château Impérial à Nuremburg (View of the Imperial Castle Square in Nuremburg)

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

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. 255 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. 2117674 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 06:13 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.