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 “Simon Harris” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:05 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.
Taperstick, by Simon Harris

Taperstick

Simon Harris · 1808–9

Public domainThe Met
Sageretia minutiflora (Michx.) Trel.

Sageretia minutiflora (Michx.) Trel.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Peter and Simon Magus, by Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Saint Peter and Simon Magus

Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Public domainThe Met
Cocculus carolinus (L.) DC.

Cocculus carolinus (L.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall fountain, by Simone Mosca

Wall fountain

Simone Mosca · 1527–34

Public domainThe Met
Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Simon, by Master F. P.

St. Simon

Master F. P. · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1949 to 19 Feb 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Simon, by Angiolo Falconetto

Saint Simon

Angiolo Falconetto · ca. 1555–67

Public domainThe Met
Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Simon, by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

St. Simon

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · ca. 1536–38

Public domainThe Met
Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1949 to 19 Feb 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain, by Louis Simon Boizot

Allegory of the Maréchal de Villars’s Victory at Denain

Louis Simon Boizot · 1806, modified 1818

Public domainThe Met
Carex arctogena Harry Sm.

Carex arctogena Harry Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Simon François Ravenet, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Simon François Ravenet

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Simon Newcomb, by Charles Harold L. MacDonald, 1861 - 1923

Simon Newcomb

Charles Harold L. MacDonald, 1861 - 1923 · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist, by Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini · ca. 1523

Public domainThe Met
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature, by Unidentified

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature

Unidentified · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child

Gerard David · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Simon Bolivar Buckner, by Unidentified Artist

Simon Bolivar Buckner

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Elevation, by Simon Schijnvoet

Design for a Wall Elevation

Simon Schijnvoet · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Simon Bolivar Buckner, by Unidentified Artist

Simon Bolivar Buckner

Unidentified Artist · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virginia da Vezzo, Wife of Simon Vouet, by Claude Mellan

Virginia da Vezzo, Wife of Simon Vouet

Claude Mellan · 1626

Public domainThe Met
Simon Cameron, by Unidentified Artist

Simon Cameron

Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

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. 457 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 72107 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 22:05 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.