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. 20 shown for “Souvenir booklet on album page” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:10 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.
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir booklet on album page

Souvenir booklet on album page

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketchbook: Souvenir of Naples, by Unknown Artist

Sketchbook: Souvenir of Naples

Unknown Artist · after 1821

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir booklet on album page

Souvenir booklet on album page

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Drawings for Craftspeople, by Katsushika Hokusai

Miniature Drawings for Craftspeople

Katsushika Hokusai · 1829–31

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir booklet on album page

Souvenir booklet on album page

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Notebook with Views of the Excavations at Herculaneum and of Other Italian Cities, by Jérôme Charles Bellicard

Notebook with Views of the Excavations at Herculaneum and of Other Italian Cities

Jérôme Charles Bellicard · 1750–51

Public domainThe Met
Title Page of a Lady's Souvenir Album

Title Page of a Lady's Souvenir Album

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
A Reference List of British Army Postmarks booklet on album page

A Reference List of British Army Postmarks booklet on album page

Artist not stated in the record · 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Stamp Collecting publication, page 47 and 48 on album page

Stamp Collecting publication, page 47 and 48 on album page

Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Stamp Collecting publication, page 51 an 52 on album page

Stamp Collecting publication, page 51 an 52 on album page

Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Série des Roses, by Pierre-Louis Pierson

Série des Roses

Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Stamp Collecting publication on album page

Stamp Collecting publication on album page

Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Série des Roses, by Pierre-Louis Pierson

Série des Roses

Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Post-Civil war souvenir patriotic cover

Post-Civil war souvenir patriotic cover

Artist not stated in the record · Post 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

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. 307 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 994642 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:10 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.