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. 19 shown for “Strong box” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:19 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.
Strong box

Strong box

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Strong box and key

Strong box and key

Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Magdalen Feline

Box

Magdalen Feline · 1771–72

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent model for leather bound case, by Sherriff, John

Patent model for leather bound case

Sherriff, John · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Microscope, by R. & J. Beck

Microscope

R. & J. Beck · ca 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by François-Nicolas Chevance

Box

François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Moses McCure Strong (1810-1894), by Broich & Kremer

Portrait of Moses McCure Strong (1810-1894)

Broich & Kremer · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Meissen Manufactory

Box

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1728–30

Public domainThe Met
Cephalocarpus spongiosus (M.T. Strong) M.T. Strong

Cephalocarpus spongiosus (M.T. Strong) M.T. Strong

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battery Strong -- 1 300 Pound Parrott Rifle, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Battery Strong -- 1 300 Pound Parrott Rifle

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1860-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Rectangular Box

Panel from a Rectangular Box

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Caleb Strong, by Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854

Caleb Strong

Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octagonal Box

Octagonal Box

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

Public domainThe Met
Writing Box

Writing Box

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

Public domainThe Met
Spice box with grater, by Nicolas Mahon

Spice box with grater

Nicolas Mahon · 1723–24

Public domainThe Met
Seal box, by Benjamin Laver

Seal box

Benjamin Laver · 1783–84

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. 248 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 121517 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 14:19 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.