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. 17 shown for “Pacific Plantronics, Inc.” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:52 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.
Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces

Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Headset, Communications Carrier, Armstrong, Apollo 11, by Pacific Plantronics, Inc.

Headset, Communications Carrier, Armstrong, Apollo 11

Pacific Plantronics, Inc.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunset Magazine, by William Stevens

Sunset Magazine

William Stevens · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Gracilaria salicornia (C. Agardh) E.Y. Dawson

Gracilaria salicornia (C. Agardh) E.Y. Dawson

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunset Magazine, April, by William Stevens

Sunset Magazine, April

William Stevens · 1903

Public domainThe Met
Betaphycus gelatinus (Esper) Doty ex P.C. Silva

Betaphycus gelatinus (Esper) Doty ex P.C. Silva

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hazomanga finial, by Sakalava artist

Hazomanga finial

Sakalava artist · 17th–late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang

Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warrior Figure, by Lower Niger Valley caster

Warrior Figure

Lower Niger Valley caster · 1455–1640

Public domainThe Met
Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang

Kappaphycus alvarezii var. tambalang

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dugong Hunting Charm

Dugong Hunting Charm

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box, by Sebastian Stoskopff

Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box

Sebastian Stoskopff · late 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Harpoon Counterweight

Harpoon Counterweight

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Jar

Jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 100–300

Public domainThe Met
Meeting with a Friend on an Autumn Day, by Noro Kaiseki

Meeting with a Friend on an Autumn Day

Noro Kaiseki · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo and Rock in Snow, by Sakaki Hyakusen

Bamboo and Rock in Snow

Sakaki Hyakusen · 1750

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. 91 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 639712 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 11:52 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.