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. 23 shown for “Stamp seal (oval conoid) with divine symbols” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 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 (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
Pinback Button, "Children’s March for Survival"

Pinback Button, "Children’s March for Survival"

Artist not stated in the record · 1972

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
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 (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
Cloth with inventory stamp

Cloth with inventory stamp

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with deity (?)

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with deity (?)

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

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
5c Pocahontas plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

5c Pocahontas plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia

Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia

Artist not stated in the record · early 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington on Hunter's Express cover

3c Washington on Hunter's Express cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1852-1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Owney tag

Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Baltimore and Grafton Railroad Owney tag

Baltimore and Grafton Railroad Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

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

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with deity

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

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories), by Etienne Delaune, French, 1519 - 1583

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, French, 1519 - 1583 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Leroy Kelley

Photograph of Leroy Kelley

Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th 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. 60 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. 269819 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:52 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.