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 print of a Black nurse with two white children” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:01 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.
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
Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children

Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

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
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital

Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of men running with a football in front of two houses

Photograph of men running with a football in front of two houses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a young boy

Photographic postcard of a young boy

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Albumen print of a woman and two children in front of a log house in Georgia

Albumen print of a woman and two children in front of a log house in Georgia

Artist not stated in the record · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing the Children, by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ Blessing the Children

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a Guilford County school bus and school children

Photograph of a Guilford County school bus and school children

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a church congregation

Photographic postcard of a church congregation

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of two unidentified children by Ball & Sons

Cabinet card of two unidentified children by Ball & Sons

Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of a young woman holding two white children

Ambrotype of a young woman holding two white children

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of two unidentified children in communion dress by J. P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of two unidentified children in communion dress by J. P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), by Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman and two children by J.P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman and two children by J.P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

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. 1102 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. 3946829 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 06:01 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.