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 “R. J. Langston” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:39 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.
A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903), by Luigi Palma di Cesnola

A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903)

Luigi Palma di Cesnola · 1885–1904

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Rochester For Clothing, Garrettsville, Ohio], by R. J. Langston

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Rochester For Clothing, Garrettsville, Ohio]

R. J. Langston · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Eriogonum annuum Nutt.

Eriogonum annuum Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagdhorn in G, by Jacob Schmidt

Jagdhorn in G

Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by T.J. Wheatley and Company

Vase

T.J. Wheatley and Company · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh

Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–745 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figured flask, by J. R. Robinson and Sons

Figured flask

J. R. Robinson and Sons · 1830–35

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banquet Scene with Musicians, Tomb of Nakht, by Norman de Garis Davies

Banquet Scene with Musicians, Tomb of Nakht

Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1914; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by John Henry Belter

Armchair

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty

Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Agaricia agaricites

Agaricia agaricites

Artist not stated in the record

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. 5843 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1997181 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-08 19:39 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.