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. 24 shown for “Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine being” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:21 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 (duck-shaped) with divine being

Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine being

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

Public domainThe Met
US Navy dress jumper worn by Lorenzo DuFau on USS Mason

US Navy dress jumper worn by Lorenzo DuFau on USS Mason

Artist not stated in the record · 1944-1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal, by Jacob Boelen

Seal

Jacob Boelen · ca. 1704

Public domainThe Met
5c Seal of the US Naval Academy plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

5c Seal of the US Naval Academy plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · May 18, 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck, by Terami Enkichi (died 1838)

Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck

Terami Enkichi (died 1838) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine symbols

Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Scientific American", by Enos Richardson & Company

"Scientific American"

Enos Richardson & Company · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine symbol

Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine symbol

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

Public domainThe Met
Georgia marriage license between Ezekiel Leonard and Marry Hammond

Georgia marriage license between Ezekiel Leonard and Marry Hammond

Artist not stated in the record · January 8, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress

Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
5c Seal of the US Naval Academy die proof attached to plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

5c Seal of the US Naval Academy die proof attached to plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp Seal in the Shape of a Duck

Stamp Seal in the Shape of a Duck

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

Public domainThe Met
Rotary Perforating Machine, by Crown Cork & Seal Company

Rotary Perforating Machine

Crown Cork & Seal Company · 1918 - 1939 (BEP)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp Seal in Shape of a Cat

Stamp Seal in Shape of a Cat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 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 (conoid) with divine being

Stamp seal (conoid) with divine being

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th 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
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with divine being

Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with divine being

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th 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 (scarab) with divine being

Stamp seal (scarab) with divine being

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
American Postage Meter Company machine head, by American Postage Meter Company

American Postage Meter Company machine head

American Postage Meter Company · 1912

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
Certificate, F. A. I., James H. Doolittle

Certificate, F. A. I., James H. Doolittle

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

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. 370 matched · 24 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. 276840 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 14:21 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.