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. 22 shown for “Positive Organ” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:23 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.
Positive Organ

Positive Organ

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Organic Motif

Organic Motif

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book, by Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master"

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 3

City letter carrier cap badge, number 3

Artist not stated in the record · early 1900s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Organ, by Unknown

Chamber Organ

Unknown · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dutch mailbox

Dutch mailbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1930 - 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Organ, by Thomas Chapman

Chamber Organ

Thomas Chapman · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Messenger cap badge, number 2, by C. D. Reese Company, Inc.

Messenger cap badge, number 2

C. D. Reese Company, Inc. · 1900s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Service Badge, by C. J. Hellers

Service Badge

C. J. Hellers · Date of issue: late 1888-1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heart amulets

Heart amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Foundering Icebergs near Battle Harbour, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Foundering Icebergs near Battle Harbour, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 7 and 9, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heart amulet

Heart amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
RFD letter carrier cap badge, number 2, by C. J. Hellers

RFD letter carrier cap badge, number 2

C. J. Hellers · early 1900s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
City letter carrier cap badge, number 77, by C. J. Hellers

City letter carrier cap badge, number 77

C. J. Hellers · 1888-1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1504

City letter carrier cap badge, number 1504

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
City letter carrier cap badge, number 11, by C. J. Hellers

City letter carrier cap badge, number 11

C. J. Hellers · late 1800s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musician, by Bartholomeus van der Helst

The Musician

Bartholomeus van der Helst · 1662

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. 292 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 14110 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 2026-08-28 23:23 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.