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 “Populus alba L.” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 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.
Armor of the Dukes of Alba, by Lucio Piccinino

Armor of the Dukes of Alba

Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L. x P. tremula L.

Populus alba L. x P. tremula L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo), by Luigi Crosio

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo)

Luigi Crosio · 1870–71

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lotus Flower Inlay

Lotus Flower Inlay

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

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Man of Sorrows, by Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono)

The Man of Sorrows

Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto, by Saturnino Gatti

The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto

Saturnino Gatti · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes, by Donato de' Bardi

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes

Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Crucifix, by Pietro di Francesco Orioli

Processional Crucifix

Pietro di Francesco Orioli · ca. 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Abu'l Hasan

"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Abu'l Hasan · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–80 (rebuilt, with extensive replacements)

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from "New designs for costumes" (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies), by François Joullain

Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from "New designs for costumes" (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)

François Joullain · ca. 1721

Public domainThe Met
Populus alba L.

Populus alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1897

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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1298300 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.