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. 22 shown for “Seal in the form of a hedgehog” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:39 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.
Seal in the form of a hedgehog

Seal in the form of a hedgehog

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718

Proofs for four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter I

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718 · 1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedgehog

Hedgehog

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedgehog

Hedgehog

Artist not stated in the record · probably 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet with Aventail

Helmet with Aventail

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th– late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Blank certificate of pastor's appointment for the A.M.E. Church

Blank certificate of pastor's appointment for the A.M.E. Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedgehog Stamp Seal

Hedgehog Stamp Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal, by Jacob Boelen

Seal

Jacob Boelen · ca. 1704

Public domainThe Met
Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1866-1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hedgehog Cactus (Coryphantha arizonica), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Hedgehog Cactus (Coryphantha arizonica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Organization of Afro-American Unity Inc. Aims and Objectives, by Organization of Afro-American Unity, American, 1964 - 1965

Organization of Afro-American Unity Inc. Aims and Objectives

Organization of Afro-American Unity, American, 1964 - 1965 · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Seal

Seal

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

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. 20859 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483534 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:39 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.