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 an unidentified child” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:16 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.
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of an unidentified child

Photographic print of an unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of unidentified child

Photographic postcard of unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of unidentified woman and child

Photographic print of unidentified woman and child

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · Early sixteenth century

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
An Hour's Hunting

An Hour's Hunting

Artist not stated in the record · 1876-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

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
Madonna and Child, by Berlinghiero

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a gingham dress by J.P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a gingham dress by J.P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

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

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

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

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a white dress by J.P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a white dress by J.P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Cabinet card of an unidentified child wearing a christening gown

Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1906

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. 4998 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2920608 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 15:16 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.