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. 21 shown for “S. C. Burgess” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:13 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.
Cup with cover, by Hans van Amsterdam

Cup with cover

Hans van Amsterdam · 1533/34

Public domainThe Met
Pocillopora tuahiniensis

Pocillopora tuahiniensis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 2021

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri], by S. C. Burgess

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri]

S. C. Burgess · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le pitture e sculture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un' appendice di alcune private gallerie, by Luigi Chizzola

Le pitture e sculture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un' appendice di alcune private gallerie

Luigi Chizzola · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Wiwaxia corrugata (Matthew, 1899)

Wiwaxia corrugata (Matthew, 1899)

Artist not stated in the record · 1910 to 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered bottle, by Wari artist(s)

Double-chambered bottle

Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding dress

Wedding dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1868

Public domainThe Met
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas, by Peter Welling

James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas

Peter Welling · 1850–55

Public domainThe Met
Canadia spinosa Walcott, 1911

Canadia spinosa Walcott, 1911

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canadia spinosa Walcott, 1911

Canadia spinosa Walcott, 1911

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Ottoia prolifica Walcott

Artist not stated in the record

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. 23408 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1681278 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 16:13 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.