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. 13 shown for “Stela of Tetu and Nefertjentet” — 41 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:22 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.
Stela of Tetu and Nefertjentet

Stela of Tetu and Nefertjentet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2124–1981 BC

Public domainThe Met
Juncus pelocarpus E. Mey.

Juncus pelocarpus E. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton

Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lepraria sp.

Lepraria sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phyllopsora sp.

Phyllopsora sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono) From the Series One hundred Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Plum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono) From the Series One hundred Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chiodecton sp.

Chiodecton sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichostomum portoricense H.A. Crum & Steere

Trichostomum portoricense H.A. Crum & Steere

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3104522 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 02:22 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.