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. 16 shown for “Saint Louis Blues” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:31 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.
Flintlock Gun, by Louis Jaley

Flintlock Gun

Louis Jaley · dated 1735

Public domainThe Met
Saint Louis Blues

Saint Louis Blues

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Louis Stevenson, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Robert Louis Stevenson

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1887–88; cast 1910

Public domainThe Met
Envelope for the Cathrell Printing Company

Envelope for the Cathrell Printing Company

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Admission ticket for Joe Louis Training Camp, St. Louis, Missouri, by Pine Street YMCA, American, 1919 - 1955

Admission ticket for Joe Louis Training Camp, St. Louis, Missouri

Pine Street YMCA, American, 1919 - 1955 · ca. 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud, by Georges Jacob

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

Georges Jacob · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Jersey for the St. Louis Cardinals worn by Curt Flood

Jersey for the St. Louis Cardinals worn by Curt Flood

Artist not stated in the record · 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Vase (one of a pair), by Saint-Cloud factory

Vase (one of a pair)

Saint-Cloud factory · ca. 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Pair of candlesticks (part of a set), by Nicolas François Foulon

Pair of candlesticks (part of a set)

Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Grenouillard (The Frog Man), by Jean-Joseph Carriès

Le Grenouillard (The Frog Man)

Jean-Joseph Carriès · ca. 1891

Public domainThe Met
Flask with face, by Jean-Joseph Carriès

Flask with face

Jean-Joseph Carriès · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
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. 3630 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. 123660 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:31 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.