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. 16 shown for “Stone, Coquerel et LeGros” — 44 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 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.
Plate, by Stone, Coquerel et LeGros

Plate

Stone, Coquerel et LeGros · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.

Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Big hot ones! Hot!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 14, 1868, by Honoré Daumier

Big hot ones! Hot!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 14, 1868

Honoré Daumier · November 14, 1868

Public domainThe Met
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alphonse Legros, 8 May 1837 - 8 Dec 1911 · c. 1863-82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Woman in the Waves, by Gustave Courbet

The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Leucorrhinia frigida

Leucorrhinia frigida

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lestes rectangularis

Lestes rectangularis

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sympetrum obtrusum

Sympetrum obtrusum

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lestes disjunctus

Lestes disjunctus

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nehalennia irene

Nehalennia irene

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enallagma hageni

Enallagma hageni

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nehalennia irene

Nehalennia irene

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lestes rectangularis

Lestes rectangularis

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucorrhinia frigida

Leucorrhinia frigida

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2013

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 168436 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.