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 “Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force” — 39 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:29 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.
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force

Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Suit, Flying, United States Air Force Thunderbirds, by Gibson & Barnes Inc.

Suit, Flying, United States Air Force Thunderbirds

Gibson & Barnes Inc. · 2006-2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Westland Lysander IIIa, by Westland Aircraft Limited

Westland Lysander IIIa

Westland Aircraft Limited · 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Kittyhawk IA), by Curtiss Aircraft Company

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Kittyhawk IA)

Curtiss Aircraft Company · 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Amelia Earhart's flight suit, by Arnold, Constable & Company

Amelia Earhart's flight suit

Arnold, Constable & Company · c. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tupu

Tupu

Artist not stated in the record · Before 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore, by Macchi S.A.

Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore

Macchi S.A.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang, by North American Aviation Inc.

North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang

North American Aviation Inc. · 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

The Crucifixion

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1675

Public domainThe Met
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC, by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC

Hawker Aircraft Ltd. · 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, by Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson · 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Schweizer SGU 2-22EK, by Schweizer Aircraft Corporation

Schweizer SGU 2-22EK

Schweizer Aircraft Corporation · 1946-1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Dayton-Wright DH-4, by Dayton-Wright Airplane Co.

Dayton-Wright DH-4

Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. · 1917-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel "La Cucaracha"

Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel "La Cucaracha"

Artist not stated in the record · 1935

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 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 2026-09-10 16:29 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.