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. 23 shown for “Pocket book” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:49 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.
Pocket Book

Pocket Book

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pocket book

Pocket book

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket Book

Pocket Book

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pocket book

Pocket book

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1856

Public domainThe Met
Pocket book

Pocket book

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hiding of Moses, from "Remember Me!, or a Pocket Companion", by William Blake

Hiding of Moses, from "Remember Me!, or a Pocket Companion"

William Blake · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket-Books, by Kubo Shunman

Pocket-Books

Kubo Shunman · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Western Pocket Watch From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Western Pocket Watch From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3

Utagawa Hiroshige · dated 1823

Public domainThe Met
Purse

Purse

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket Model Colt Revolver

Pocket Model Colt Revolver

Artist not stated in the record · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Letter case

Letter case

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, by Pieter Claesz

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

Pieter Claesz · 1628

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Circular Slide Rule Invented by John W. Nystrom, by Nystrom, John William

Patent Model for Circular Slide Rule Invented by John W. Nystrom

Nystrom, John William · before 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'ami des voyageurs, ou, Etrennes instructives, curieuses et nécessaires à toutes les personnes qui voyagent, soit à pied, à cheval, en voiture, ou par eau : soit par les voitures publiques, etc. etc., by Marcilly

L'ami des voyageurs, ou, Etrennes instructives, curieuses et nécessaires à toutes les personnes qui voyagent, soit à pied, à cheval, en voiture, ou par eau : soit par les voitures publiques, etc. etc.

Marcilly · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
You'll Find Old Dixieland in France

You'll Find Old Dixieland in France

Artist not stated in the record · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Model 1849 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 81015, by Samuel Colt

Colt Model 1849 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 81015

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Wounded Buffalo, Strewing His Blood over the Prairies, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Wounded Buffalo, Strewing His Blood over the Prairies

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scholars of the Liuli Hall, by Unidentified artist

Scholars of the Liuli Hall

Unidentified artist · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Believer’s Pocket Companion

The Believer’s Pocket Companion

Artist not stated in the record · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Qur'an and Qur'an Case, by Muhammad Al-Qari

Miniature Qur'an and Qur'an Case

Muhammad Al-Qari · dated 963 AH/1555 CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 25688 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:49 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.