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. 18 shown for “Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:24 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.
Library Table, by Herter Brothers

Library Table

Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Public domainThe Met
Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Artist not stated in the record · 1955-1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Table knocker from the Paradise Club

Table knocker from the Paradise Club

Artist not stated in the record · 1919-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Léon Marcotte

Table

Léon Marcotte · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Wood chair used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Wood chair used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City

Artist not stated in the record · 1955-1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1878–84

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir frame from Club Harlem, by Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986

Souvenir frame from Club Harlem

Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986 · mid 20th-late 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Bottle tag from the Cotton Club

Bottle tag from the Cotton Club

Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astronomical table clock, by Jeremias Metzger

Astronomical table clock

Jeremias Metzger · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe

Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brioche, by Edouard Manet

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Plaque with Warrior and Attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds, by Vittore Gambello

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Cruet Stand, by Myer Myers

Cruet Stand

Myer Myers · 1765–76

Public domainThe Met
The Feast of Acheloüs, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1030438 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 16:24 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.