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 “Room in Artist's House” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:38 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.
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Room in Artist's House

Room in Artist's House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Exhibition Room, Somerset House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Exhibition Room, Somerset House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Public domainThe Met
India House, The Sale Room, from "Ackermann's Repository"

India House, The Sale Room, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wentworth House

Wentworth House

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
The Long Room, Custom House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

The Long Room, Custom House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing Room, by Unknown, English

Drawing Room

Unknown, English · ca. 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

Public domainThe Met
House Beautiful: Giacometti, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, by Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943

House Beautiful: Giacometti, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943 · ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House, by Anonymous, British, 19th century

House

Anonymous, British, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
House of Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

House of Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amo (house post figure), by Māori artist

Amo (house post figure)

Māori artist · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
House of Lords, from "Ackermann's Repository"

House of Lords, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House post figure, by Lake Sentani artist

House post figure

Lake Sentani artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
South Sea House Dividend Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

South Sea House Dividend Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancestor figure, by Kambot artist

Ancestor figure

Kambot artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Trinity House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Trinity House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House model, by Nayarit artist(s)

House model

Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp Office, Somerset House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Stamp Office, Somerset House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flims Room

The Flims Room

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Public domainThe Met
Drawing: Elevation of the window wall of the drawing room of the house of Herman Oelrichs, New York., by J. G. Garton, English, active in U.S.A.

Drawing: Elevation of the window wall of the drawing room of the house of Herman Oelrichs, New York.

J. G. Garton, English, active in U.S.A. · ca. 1900

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. 12307 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7463041 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-01 11:38 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.