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. 17 shown for “S. E. Hall” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:35 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus

Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus

Artist not stated in the record

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

Double-chambered bottle

Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus

Ondatra zibethicus zibethicus

Artist not stated in the record

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
Girl, by Leonhard Kern

Girl

Leonhard Kern · ca. 1635, base possibly late 1830s

Public domainThe Met
Vase with cover, by Longton Hall

Vase with cover

Longton Hall · ca. 1755–1757

Public domainThe Met
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: John Swanson Shoes & Boots, Hoopeston, Illnois], by S. E. Hall

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: John Swanson Shoes & Boots, Hoopeston, Illnois]

S. E. Hall · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Nude Women Wrestling, by Leonhard Kern

Nude Women Wrestling

Leonhard Kern · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Condylura cristata cristata

Condylura cristata cristata

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
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
Tamias striatus lysteri

Tamias striatus lysteri

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by George E. Ohr

Teapot

George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900

Public domainThe Met
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Vulpes vulpes fulva

Vulpes vulpes fulva

Artist not stated in the record · 1856

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. 13083 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1808580 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 10:35 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.