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. 13 shown for “Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.” — 52 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:34 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.
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.

Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.

Artist not stated in the record · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold], by Unknown

[Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold]

Unknown · April 20, 1865

Public domainThe Met
Poster reading "Jail Darren Wilson 4 Murder" used at Baltimore protests, by Peoples Power Assemblies, American

Poster reading "Jail Darren Wilson 4 Murder" used at Baltimore protests

Peoples Power Assemblies, American · April 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poster in support Joan Little, by Joanne Little Defense Fund, Inc., American, founded 1974

Poster in support Joan Little

Joanne Little Defense Fund, Inc., American, founded 1974 · 1974-1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wanted poster for the DeAutremonts

Wanted poster for the DeAutremonts

Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense, by Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense

Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982 · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black and white poster of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, by Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982

Black and white poster of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982 · ca. 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard, by Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard

Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard, by Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard

Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard, by Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard

Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
M is for Mississippi and Murder, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

M is for Mississippi and Murder

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
M is for Mississippi and Murder, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909

M is for Mississippi and Murder

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1848958 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 10:34 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.