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. 12 shown for “Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:22 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper

Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper

Artist not stated in the record · March 15-22, 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National Police Gazette, 1865

National Police Gazette, 1865

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-04-22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Goddard portrait

William Goddard portrait

Artist not stated in the record · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gazette of the United States newspaper

Gazette of the United States newspaper

Artist not stated in the record · January 18, 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shays Rebellion" in the Massachusetts Gazette

"Shays Rebellion" in the Massachusetts Gazette

Artist not stated in the record · September 8, 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathan Crocker and William Goddard, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Nathan Crocker and William Goddard

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Meatless Menu" item of ephemera

"Meatless Menu" item of ephemera

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gazette des Absents Newspaper from Paris office at Rue de Clery

Gazette des Absents Newspaper from Paris office at Rue de Clery

Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
For the Connecticut Gazette

For the Connecticut Gazette

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1p Stamp Act of 1765 proof

1p Stamp Act of 1765 proof

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7483684 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 23:22 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.