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. 16 shown for “Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018” — 59 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:46 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.
Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831), by Tula Arms Factory

Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831)

Tula Arms Factory · ca. 1801

Public domainThe Met
T-shirt from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign, by Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018

T-shirt from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign

Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle in the shape of a dog, by Nasca artist(s)

Bottle in the shape of a dog

Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button for Stacey Abrams gubernatorial campaign, by Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018

Pinback button for Stacey Abrams gubernatorial campaign

Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle, by Paracas artist(s)

Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle

Paracas artist(s) · 800–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Navy baseball cap from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign, by Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018

Navy baseball cap from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign

Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Dress worn by Stacey Abrams on election night 2018, by Tahari Arthur S. Levine, American, founded 2001

Dress worn by Stacey Abrams on election night 2018

Tahari Arthur S. Levine, American, founded 2001 · 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier standing at ease

Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier standing at ease

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”

Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2090 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kneeling bearded figure, by Olmec artist(s)

Kneeling bearded figure

Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Nose Ornament with Shrimp

Nose Ornament with Shrimp

Artist not stated in the record · 500-800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Four-Cornered Hat

Four-Cornered Hat

Artist not stated in the record · 500–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene, by Chimú artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene

Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 0 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. 1177723 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 21:46 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.