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. 10 shown for “Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 11:01 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.

World War II letter from President Harry S. Truman to Robert S. Jennings

World War II letter from President Harry S. Truman to Robert S. Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
World War II Honorable Discharge information sheet issued to Robert S. Jennings

World War II Honorable Discharge information sheet issued to Robert S. Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Army Air Forces Certificate of Appreciation for War Services

Army Air Forces Certificate of Appreciation for War Services

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter from General Richard C. Sanders to former Army Air Forces team

Letter from General Richard C. Sanders to former Army Air Forces team

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock from Robert S. Jennings WW II posting with 56th Aviation Squadron, by Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991

Rock from Robert S. Jennings WW II posting with 56th Aviation Squadron

Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991 · October 10, 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock commemorating basic training at Fort McClellan during World War II, by Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991

Rock commemorating basic training at Fort McClellan during World War II

Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991 · September 1, 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basic Field Manual: Soldiers Handbook (FM 21-100), by United States Department of War, American, 1789 - 1947

Basic Field Manual: Soldiers Handbook (FM 21-100)

United States Department of War, American, 1789 - 1947 · July 23, 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women's Army Corps uniform worn by Private First Class Ara Belle Brown Jennings

Women's Army Corps uniform worn by Private First Class Ara Belle Brown Jennings

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1913

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. 1216751 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 11:01 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.