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. 18 shown for “Shoulder Belt for a Powder Horn” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 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.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Red coatdress with window pane pattern and matching belt, by Elizabeth Arden, Canadian, 1884 - 1966

Red coatdress with window pane pattern and matching belt

Elizabeth Arden, Canadian, 1884 - 1966 · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoulder Belt for a Powder Horn

Shoulder Belt for a Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · probably early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern, by Unidentified

Dress, shawl, and belt with multicolored geometric pattern

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories, by Wogdon & Barton

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories

Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Public domainThe Met
Cellulose nitrate powder box lid from dresser set owned by Lena Horne, by Agalin, French

Cellulose nitrate powder box lid from dresser set owned by Lena Horne

Agalin, French · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories, by Durs Egg

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories

Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Public domainThe Met
Cellulose nitrate powder box from dresser set owned by Lena Horne, by Agalin, French

Cellulose nitrate powder box from dresser set owned by Lena Horne

Agalin, French · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armored Cavalryman

Armored Cavalryman

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

Public domainThe Met
Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic, by Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911

Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic

Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911 · mid 1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt, by Unidentified

Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt

Unidentified · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Public domainThe Met
Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet, by Unidentified

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matchlock Musket (me mda')

Matchlock Musket (me mda')

Artist not stated in the record · barrel, probably 18th–19th century; stock and other fittings, probably mid-19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Powder Flask

Powder Flask

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Powder Horn of John Mahard, by John Bush

Powder Horn of John Mahard

John Bush · Dated 1756

Public domainThe Met
Inlaid Powder Horn

Inlaid Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by John Manton & Son

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

John Manton & Son · 1815–34

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. 254 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2091941 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:11 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.