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. 20 shown for “Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s” — 58 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:01 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.
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Price list for Poro beauty products

Price list for Poro beauty products

Artist not stated in the record · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Public domainThe Met
Handwritten formula for hair grower

Handwritten formula for hair grower

Artist not stated in the record · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for ten dollars from Lucille Brown, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Receipt for ten dollars from Lucille Brown

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · February 28, 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk, by Paul Cézanne

Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk

Paul Cézanne · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Price list for dealers of Poro beauty products, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Price list for dealers of Poro beauty products

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Letter to Lucille Brown from Annie Malone Pope-Turnbo

Letter to Lucille Brown from Annie Malone Pope-Turnbo

Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Handwritten formula for pressing oil

Handwritten formula for pressing oil

Artist not stated in the record · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?), by Willem Drost

Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?)

Willem Drost · 1653 or 1655

Public domainThe Met
Enrollment Certificate to Poro College for Lucille Brown, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Enrollment Certificate to Poro College for Lucille Brown

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · March 19, 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Guildford (Mary Wotton, 1499–1558), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Lady Guildford (Mary Wotton, 1499–1558)

Hans Holbein the Younger

Public domainThe Met
Price list for dealers of Poro products, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Price list for dealers of Poro products

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Price list for dealers of Poro products, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Price list for dealers of Poro products

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Typewritten formula for Poro hair rinse, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Typewritten formula for Poro hair rinse

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Lucille Brown among Poro agents and one small child, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Photograph of Lucille Brown among Poro agents and one small child

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and signed pupil agreement, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and signed pupil agreement

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1497797 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-31 23:01 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.