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. 13 shown for “Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938” — 21 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:05 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.
Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours, by Raphael

Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours

Raphael

Public domainThe Met
(Untitled), by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

(Untitled)

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled), by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

(Untitled)

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1891*)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled), by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

(Untitled)

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (c. 1907)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlem River, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Harlem River

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jamaica, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Jamaica

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlem River, Gerard Ave., by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Harlem River, Gerard Ave.

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fort Lee, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Fort Lee

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1904)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Van Pelt Manor--Bath Beach, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Van Pelt Manor--Bath Beach

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1901)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Martin, Cologne, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

St. Martin, Cologne

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bath Beach, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

Bath Beach

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled), by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

(Untitled)

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1902)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New Bronx County Courthouse, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

New Bronx County Courthouse

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1903)

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15 matched · 15 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 20:05 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.