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. 19 shown for “Sita Ram” — 50 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 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.
View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil, by Sita Ram

View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil

Sita Ram · ca. 1814–23

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Building the Bridge to Lanka

Building the Bridge to Lanka

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Building the Bridge to Lanka, by Seu Family

Building the Bridge to Lanka

Seu Family · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses, by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya

A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses

Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1970 to 20 Oct 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrificial Sword (Rāmdāo)

Sacrificial Sword (Rāmdāo)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrificial Sword (Kartrī or Churī)

Sacrificial Sword (Kartrī or Churī)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sacrificial Knife

Sacrificial Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Indothemis limbata sita

Indothemis limbata sita

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prodasineura sita

Prodasineura sita

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indothemis limbata sita

Indothemis limbata sita

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1052 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 07:45 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.