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 “Roches” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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.
Saint Roch

Saint Roch

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sacciolepis myuros (Lam.) Chase

Sacciolepis myuros (Lam.) Chase

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 27/5/10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket watch, by Roches

Pocket watch

Roches · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Scleria staheliana Uittien

Scleria staheliana Uittien

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rocky Path in the Morvan (Chemin des roches dans le Morvan), by Henri-Joseph Harpignies

The Rocky Path in the Morvan (Chemin des roches dans le Morvan)

Henri-Joseph Harpignies · 1869

Public domainThe Met
Chamaecrista desvauxii var. saxatilis (Amshoff) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Chamaecrista desvauxii var. saxatilis (Amshoff) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child, by Léon Bonnat

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child

Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Public domainThe Met
Endlicheria pyriformis (Nees) Mez

Endlicheria pyriformis (Nees) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruins in Carey Street, Richmond, by Thomas C. Roche

Ruins in Carey Street, Richmond

Thomas C. Roche · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Costus spiralis var. villosus Maas

Costus spiralis var. villosus Maas

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rebel Artillery Soldiers, Killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, Called by the Soldiers "Fort Damnation," at the Storming of Petersburgh, Virginia, by Thomas C. Roche

Rebel Artillery Soldiers, Killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, Called by the Soldiers "Fort Damnation," at the Storming of Petersburgh, Virginia

Thomas C. Roche · April 2, 1865

Public domainThe Met
Père Roche, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Père Roche

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia], by Thomas C. Roche

[Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia]

Thomas C. Roche · 1865

Public domainThe Met
P. La Roche, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

P. La Roche

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia, by Thomas C. Roche

Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia

Thomas C. Roche · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella sulcata (Desv. ex Poir.) Spring

Selaginella sulcata (Desv. ex Poir.) Spring

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead Confederates, Fort Mahone, by Thomas C. Roche

Dead Confederates, Fort Mahone

Thomas C. Roche · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella sandwithii Alston

Selaginella sandwithii Alston

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead Confederate Soldier at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, by Thomas C. Roche

Dead Confederate Soldier at Fort Mahone, Petersburg

Thomas C. Roche · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Saint Roch, by Unidentified (French)

Saint Roch

Unidentified (French) · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camp Scenes, Army of the Potomac. The Amateur Barber., by Thomas C. Roche

Camp Scenes, Army of the Potomac. The Amateur Barber.

Thomas C. Roche · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Begonia prieurii A. DC.

Begonia prieurii A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia, by Thomas C. Roche

Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia

Thomas C. Roche · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Miconia lappacea (DC.) Triana

Miconia lappacea (DC.) Triana

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1969

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. 259 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2685 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.