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. 23 shown for “Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia” — 54 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:47 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.
Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta plaque

Terracotta plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)

Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels

Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1370s

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, Saint Michael, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, and the Trinity

Diptych with Scenes of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, Saint Michael, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, and the Trinity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nursing woman

Nursing woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, by Sesson Shūkei

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Public domainThe Met
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in relief with bulls and tree

Furniture plaque carved in relief with bulls and tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
World War II Patriotic cover, by Walter T. Poppenger

World War II Patriotic cover

Walter T. Poppenger · November 10, 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with bull

Openwork furniture plaque with bull

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax

Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Openwork furniture plaque with galloping bull

Openwork furniture plaque with galloping bull

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hold Up Your End! War Fund Week, by W. B. King, American, 1880–1927

Hold Up Your End! War Fund Week

W. B. King, American, 1880–1927 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 1189594 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 01:47 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.