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 “Photograph of Amelia Earhart in London, England” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:59 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.
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire, by Peter Langlois

Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire

Peter Langlois · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Amelia Earhart in London, England

Photograph of Amelia Earhart in London, England

Artist not stated in the record · May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

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
[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France], by M. Leon

[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]

M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

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
Hooded wall clock with calendar, by Ahasuerus I Fromanteel

Hooded wall clock with calendar

Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Photograph Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Photograph Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

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
Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
News clippings surrounding Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight to Europe

News clippings surrounding Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight to Europe

Artist not stated in the record · May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Settee

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

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
Chandelier, by John Gumley

Chandelier

John Gumley · ca. 1710–15

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
Tear wine glass, by Harry Powell

Tear wine glass

Harry Powell · ca. 1899

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Amelia Earhart in flight gear and with flowers

Photograph of Amelia Earhart in flight gear and with flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lake of Zug, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Lake of Zug

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart

Photograph of Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart

Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of New York City parade honoring Amelia Earhart

Photograph of New York City parade honoring Amelia Earhart

Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Amelia Earhart in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland

Photograph of Amelia Earhart in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

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. 450 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7484867 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 05:59 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.