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 young girl standing on a chair” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:28 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
Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair

Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair

Artist not stated in the record · mid 1890s-1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Postcard of Ruby, a Pullman maid, with a young girl

Postcard of Ruby, a Pullman maid, with a young girl

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman Peeling Apples, by Nicolaes Maes

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a toddler standing on a wicker chair

Photograph of a toddler standing on a wicker chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Larby Smith standing next to a wicker chair.

Photograph of Larby Smith standing next to a wicker chair.

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans, by Charles Paxson, American

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans

Charles Paxson, American · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of young man standing next to a wicker chair

Photograph of young man standing next to a wicker chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Photograph of three children, a white cat, a woman and a man

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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
Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table), by Unidentified

Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table)

Unidentified · 1850s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing shelf (one of a pair), by William Linnell

Standing shelf (one of a pair)

William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a girl reading

Photograph of a girl reading

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of two girls standing in front of a door

Photograph of two girls standing in front of a door

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl

Photographic postcard of an unidentified young girl

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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. 1589 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4008196 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 11:28 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.