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 “Southern Pine Sawyer” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:22 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.
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Southern Pine Sawyer

Southern Pine Sawyer

Artist not stated in the record · 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Southern Pine Sawyer

Southern Pine Sawyer

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Frangula purshiana subsp. annonifolia (Greene) Sawyer & S.W. Edwards

Frangula purshiana subsp. annonifolia (Greene) Sawyer & S.W. Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
Stevia plummerae A. Gray

Stevia plummerae A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Poa alsodes A. Gray

Poa alsodes A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Glyptonotobdella antarctica

Glyptonotobdella antarctica

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
God the Father, by Ignaz Günther

God the Father

Ignaz Günther · ca. 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
Cabin from Point of Pines Plantation in Charleston County, South Carolina, by Point of Pines Plantation, American

Cabin from Point of Pines Plantation in Charleston County, South Carolina

Point of Pines Plantation, American · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spice Cabinet

Spice Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet

Cabinet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 269076 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 2026-09-04 12:22 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.