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. 14 shown for “Snuff bottle with camel wrangler and Manchu horse rider” — 42 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 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.
Snuff bottle with camel wrangler and Manchu horse rider

Snuff bottle with camel wrangler and Manchu horse rider

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders

Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artillery Horses with Riders, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Artillery Horses with Riders

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 18, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff bottle and stopper

Snuff bottle and stopper

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sample

Sample

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mixed Studies with Mounted Bedouin Guides, Palestine or Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Studies with Mounted Bedouin Guides, Palestine or Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Post Office Department patch

Post Office Department patch

Artist not stated in the record · 1965-1970

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1527357 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 2026-08-27 05:17 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.