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 “Photograph of Maggie Green” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:01 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 Singer in Green, by Edgar Degas

The Singer in Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Maggie Green

Photograph of Maggie Green

Artist not stated in the record · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancers, Pink and Green, by Edgar Degas

Dancers, Pink and Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Fisk Jubilee Singers, by Unidentified Artist

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medinet-Habu, by John Beasley Greene

Medinet-Habu

John Beasley Greene · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Maggie J. Sims

Cabinet card of Maggie J. Sims

Artist not stated in the record · mid 1870s-mid 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Maggie Hickman in a cap and gown

Photograph of Maggie Hickman in a cap and gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[The Nile in front of the Theban Hills], by John Beasley Greene

[The Nile in front of the Theban Hills]

John Beasley Greene · 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Unidentified Artist

Maggie Mitchell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Maggie Mitchell

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maggie Mitchell, by Unidentified Artist

Maggie Mitchell

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dogs, racing - 'Ike' - 'Maggie', by Muybridge, Eadweard

Dogs, racing - 'Ike' - 'Maggie'

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dog galloping; white racing hound, Maggie, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Dog galloping; white racing hound, Maggie

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

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. 510 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2949523 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 2026-09-06 04:01 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.