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 Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 04:09 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.
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

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 Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Invitation to ceremony honoring Amelia Earhart Putnam

Invitation to ceremony honoring Amelia Earhart Putnam

Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

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
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
'Plaque to Amelia Earhart' and 'Urge Earhart Commemorative' news clippings

'Plaque to Amelia Earhart' and 'Urge Earhart Commemorative' news clippings

Artist not stated in the record · 1952-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping

'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping

Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch, by Cornelis Engebrechtsz

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch

Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Amelia Earhart's flight suit, by Arnold, Constable & Company

Amelia Earhart's flight suit

Arnold, Constable & Company · c. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Medal presented to Amelia Earhart

Medal presented to Amelia Earhart

Artist not stated in the record · October 5, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Postcard of Amelia Earhart's monoplane "Friendship"

Postcard of Amelia Earhart's monoplane "Friendship"

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp newspaper clipping

Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp newspaper clipping

Artist not stated in the record · March 22, 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp news clipping

Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp news clipping

Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ's Descent into Hell, by Hieronymus Bosch

Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Public domainThe Met
Token commemorating Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight

Token commemorating Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Earhart and Lou Gordon in New York

Photograph of Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Earhart and Lou Gordon in New York

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. 319 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. 3268235 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 04:09 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.