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 “Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:37 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.
Chair of Reniseneb

Chair of Reniseneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair

Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of an infant

Photographic postcard of an infant

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picquigny, by Frits Thaulow

Picquigny

Frits Thaulow · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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
Photographic postcard of a baby in a stroller

Photographic postcard of a baby in a stroller

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of unidentified child

Photographic postcard of unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 80–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard featuring an oval portrait of a young child

Photographic postcard featuring an oval portrait of a young child

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of an ancestral king

Statuette of an ancestral king

Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
No. 615, The Way the Negro Race is Dying Out: Mrs. Whitaker and her Children

No. 615, The Way the Negro Race is Dying Out: Mrs. Whitaker and her Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1871-1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified infant in a christening gown seated in a chair

Cabinet card of an unidentified infant in a christening gown seated in a chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit, by Pieter de Hooch

The Visit

Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Public domainThe Met
Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless, by Unidentified

Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless

Unidentified · 1908

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. 415 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7484508 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-04 01:37 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.