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. 20 shown for “Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:51 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.
Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Surveyor's Stake from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Surveyor's Stakes, by White, Peregrine

Surveyor's Stakes

White, Peregrine · 1775-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple

Surveyor's Mallet From Foundation Deposit B, Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jeanne d'Arc, by Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843

Jeanne d'Arc

Charles Abraham Chasselat, French, 1782–1843 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Kourt King croquet game set stakes from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Kourt King croquet game set stakes from Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model, Lunar Lander, Surveyor, 1/5 Scale, by Hughes Aircraft Co.

Model, Lunar Lander, Surveyor, 1/5 Scale

Hughes Aircraft Co.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Execution by Gunpowder of Hendrik Eemkens in 1562 in Utrecht, design for illustration in T.J. van Bragt, "Het bloedig tooneel, of Martelaers spiegel der doopsgesinde of weereloose christenen (The Mirror of Martyrs), 1685., by Jan Luyken, Dutch, 1649 - 1712

The Execution by Gunpowder of Hendrik Eemkens in 1562 in Utrecht, design for illustration in T.J. van Bragt, "Het bloedig tooneel, of Martelaers spiegel der doopsgesinde of weereloose christenen (The Mirror of Martyrs), 1685.

Jan Luyken, Dutch, 1649 - 1712 · 1683-1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mesekhtyu Instrument from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Mesekhtyu Instrument from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard

Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Model Stone Rocker from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carpenter's Chisel from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Chisel from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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. 261 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2240911 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 2026-09-02 06:51 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.