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. 21 shown for “Photographic print of an unidentified woman” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:16 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.
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a woman on a brick wall

Photographic print of a woman on a brick wall

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a woman in front of a building

Photographic print of a woman in front of a building

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Having Her Hair Combed, by Edgar Degas

Woman Having Her Hair Combed

Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of an unidentified woman

Photographic print of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Public domainThe Met
Photograph portrait of an unidentified woman

Photograph portrait of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1906-1912

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 unidentified woman

Photographic print of unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

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
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

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
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of unidentified woman

Photographic print of unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Pink, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Woman with a Pink

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s

Public domainThe Met
A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman

A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Hour's Hunting

An Hour's Hunting

Artist not stated in the record · 1876-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albumen print of an unidentified woman

Albumen print of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850-1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of a photographic postcard of an unidentified woman in a jacket and pants, by Unidentified Woman or Women

Piece of a photographic postcard of an unidentified woman in a jacket and pants

Unidentified Woman or Women · 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. 6328 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2918698 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 16:16 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.