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 “Striding Man” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:55 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.
Striding Man

Striding Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1800 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette, striding man

Statuette, striding man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a Man: Study from Life, by Agnes Blackwell

Figure of a Man: Study from Life

Agnes Blackwell · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a striding man

Statuette of a striding man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Striding Soldier, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656

Striding Soldier

Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1620–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Striding Man

Figure of a Striding Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–1550 BC

Public domainThe Met
Canter - one complete stride, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Canter - one complete stride

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1893-1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Figure

Striding Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2465 BCE

Public domainThe Met
(Portrait Sketch of an Actor), by Unidentified

(Portrait Sketch of an Actor)

Unidentified · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Striding Man with a Long Kilt

Figure of a Striding Man with a Long Kilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1978–1940 BC

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing, by Thomas Hovenden, born Dunmanway, Ireland 1840-died Plymouth Meeting, PA 1895

Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Thomas Hovenden, born Dunmanway, Ireland 1840-died Plymouth Meeting, PA 1895 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with a striding man from string of amulets

Plaque with a striding man from string of amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
2c "Striding Messenger" D.O. Blood & Co. local post cover

2c "Striding Messenger" D.O. Blood & Co. local post cover

Artist not stated in the record · April 15, 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Man, by Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Striding Man

Wilhelm Lehmbruck · 1914

Public domainThe Met
Striding Female Nude, by Unidentified

Striding Female Nude

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Man

Striding Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–1950 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Plaque and pins [3]

Plaque and pins [3]

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Man

Striding Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2255–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
(Untitled--Striding Figure), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled--Striding Figure)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1920-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Imenytirry in long kilt

Statuette of Imenytirry in long kilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Pogonatum aloides (Hedw.) P. Beauv.

Pogonatum aloides (Hedw.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/67

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a striding man

Statuette of a striding man

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pohlia elongata Hedw.

Pohlia elongata Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/67

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. 56 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. 61048 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 10:55 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.