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. 22 shown for “Standing civil official” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:28 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.
Standing civil official

Standing civil official

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy, by Unidentified Artist

Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy

Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure with raised arm, by Tellem blacksmith

Female figure with raised arm

Tellem blacksmith · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Officers of the C.S. Army & Navy, by C. F. May, 1800 - 1900?

The Officers of the C.S. Army & Navy

C. F. May, 1800 - 1900? · c. 1861-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Official

Standing Official

Artist not stated in the record · mid-to-late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Confederate Political Leaders and Generals, by Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879

Confederate Political Leaders and Generals

Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879 · c. 1861-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Enemies of our Union, by Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899

Enemies of our Union

Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb guardian in form of a civil official

Tomb guardian in form of a civil official

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Nine Confederate generals, by Unidentified Artist

Nine Confederate generals

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Standing figure

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Officers of Our Army, 1861, by Unidentified Artist

Officers of Our Army, 1861

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing male worshiper

Standing male worshiper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Absentee ballot request postcard

Absentee ballot request postcard

Artist not stated in the record · July 25, 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Rattle, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Rattle

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

Public domainThe Met
Lincoln and his Lieutenants, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Lincoln and his Lieutenants

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Amulet, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Amulet

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

Public domainThe Met
Winfield Scott and Generals, by H. B. Hall

Winfield Scott and Generals

H. B. Hall · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a king as part of a group proffered by an official of Ramesses II

Figure of a king as part of a group proffered by an official of Ramesses II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Education," "The Progress of Civilization: The Forge, Commerce, and Education," State Capitol, Des Moines, IA, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study for "Education," "The Progress of Civilization: The Forge, Commerce, and Education," State Capitol, Des Moines, IA

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1905–1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Civil official

Civil official

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of 8th century

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. 666 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. 50673 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:28 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.