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. 18 shown for “Randolph, Benjamin” — 46 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 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.
Side Chair, by Benjamin Randolph

Side Chair

Benjamin Randolph · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature, by Unidentified

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature

Unidentified · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Rush M.D. L.L.D., by William Satchwell Leney

Benjamin Rush M.D. L.L.D.

William Satchwell Leney · 1814

Public domainThe Met
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature, by Unidentified

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature

Unidentified · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Artist not stated in the record · 1622

Public domainThe Met
Declaration of Independence Desk, by Randolph, Benjamin

Declaration of Independence Desk

Randolph, Benjamin · 1775-1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries, by Bicci di Lorenzo

Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries

Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum setaceum var. stramineum (Nash) D.J. Banks

Paspalum setaceum var. stramineum (Nash) D.J. Banks

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths, by Bicci di Lorenzo

Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths

Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Heterotheca latifolia var. arkansana B. Wagenkn.

Heterotheca latifolia var. arkansana B. Wagenkn.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Heterotheca latifolia var. arkansana B. Wagenkn.

Heterotheca latifolia var. arkansana B. Wagenkn.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dalea leporina (Aiton) Bullock

Dalea leporina (Aiton) Bullock

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Randolph Randolph, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Mary Randolph Randolph

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter permitting Airmail Service use of grounds

Letter permitting Airmail Service use of grounds

Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph

Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph

Tripsacum maizar Hern.-Xol. & Randolph

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Randolph Hearst, by Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949

William Randolph Hearst

Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1911

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 32086 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.