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 “Tamarix gallica L.” — 47 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:26 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.
Walking stick

Walking stick

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2124–1504 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ax From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

Ax From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple

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

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record

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

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
S. Gallican, martyr (St. Gallicanus, Martyr), June 25th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), by Jacques Callot

S. Gallican, martyr (St. Gallicanus, Martyr), June 25th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

Jacques Callot · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover of a Writing Tablet

Cover of a Writing Tablet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 189

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix gallica L.

Tamarix gallica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1890

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1290860 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 02:26 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.