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 “Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:30 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.
Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
4c Malaria Eradcation plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

4c Malaria Eradcation plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · February 15, 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1866-1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fire Bucket, "J. Bickel.", by unknown

Fire Bucket, "J. Bickel."

unknown · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Mail Early with Christmas Stamps poster

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene, deity, and divine symbols

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene, deity, and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter written to William V. Brady

Letter written to William V. Brady

Artist not stated in the record · January 25, 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dance card for the University of Illinois Senior Ball

Dance card for the University of Illinois Senior Ball

Artist not stated in the record · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with divine symbols

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Banner Division Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Banner Division Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · April 11, 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (cubical) with animals, monsters, and divine symbols

Stamp seal (cubical) with animals, monsters, and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with animals and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp-cylinder seal (quarter cylinder) with cultic scene, animals (?), and divine symbols

Stamp-cylinder seal (quarter cylinder) with cultic scene, animals (?), and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Stamp seal (bifacial disk) with animals and divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–7th century BCE

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. 72 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. 2621410 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:30 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.