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. 16 shown for “Photograph of a convention of Madam C.J. Walker agents at Villa Lewaro” — 45 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:49 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.
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a convention of Madam C.J. Walker agents at Villa Lewaro

Photograph of a convention of Madam C.J. Walker agents at Villa Lewaro

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene), by Paul Cézanne

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

Paul Cézanne · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Sign for authorized agent of Mme. C.J. Walker's

Sign for authorized agent of Mme. C.J. Walker's

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Madam C.J. Walker

Photograph of Madam C.J. Walker

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s - 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil

Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's "Tan-Off", by Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1906

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's "Tan-Off"

Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1906 · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diploma from The Lelia College

Diploma from The Lelia College

Artist not stated in the record · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Member badge

Member badge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3943933 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 05:49 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.