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 “Scarf End” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Scarf End

Scarf End

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Scarf end

Scarf end

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf End

Scarf End

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Scarf

Scarf

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf end

Scarf end

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Scarf

Scarf

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf end

Scarf end

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf end

Scarf end

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Table cover, by Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association

Table cover

Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf End (Tenchifa)

Scarf End (Tenchifa)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Purple polka dot blouse with scarf collar, by Unidentified

Purple polka dot blouse with scarf collar

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silk bobbin lace scarf end

Silk bobbin lace scarf end

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Aviator's silk scarf worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett

Aviator's silk scarf worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf

Scarf

Artist not stated in the record · 1804–15

Public domainThe Met
Pink satin scarf with brocaded flowers and fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop, by Unidentified

Pink satin scarf with brocaded flowers and fringe from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
End of a scarf

End of a scarf

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Gray dress with draped shawl collar, by Unidentified

Gray dress with draped shawl collar

Unidentified · 1940s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf ends

Scarf ends

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Purple dress with white embroidery and matching shawl, by Unidentified

Purple dress with white embroidery and matching shawl

Unidentified · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf ends

Scarf ends

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Black ruffled scarf from Mae's Millinery Shop

Black ruffled scarf from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Letellier on His Deathbed, by Théodore Géricault

General Letellier on His Deathbed

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

Public domainThe Met
Scarf

Scarf

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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. 37 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. 55344 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 2026-09-02 12:19 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.