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. 18 shown for “Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England” — 46 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 07:32 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.
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England

Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of crowd greeting Amelia Earhart in Southampton, England

Photograph of crowd greeting Amelia Earhart in Southampton, England

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Amelia Earhart looking out from back door of 'Friendship'

Photograph of Amelia Earhart looking out from back door of 'Friendship'

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Amelia Earhart and others in Southampton, England

Photograph of Amelia Earhart and others in Southampton, England

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Amelia Earhart, by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Amelia Earhart

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, butterfly motif, by Robert & Josiah Walsham

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif

Robert & Josiah Walsham · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Posy Holder, Grape Cluster & Leaf Motif

Posy Holder, Grape Cluster & Leaf Motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, butterfly motif

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif, by Henry Jenkins and Sons

Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif

Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca. 1869-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, birds and leaves motif

Bouquet holder, birds and leaves motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1871

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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2968602 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 07:32 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.