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. 12 shown for “Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:27 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.
Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Artist not stated in the record · 1907; printed 1907-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tag mailed to Tuskegee Institute

Tag mailed to Tuskegee Institute

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage.

Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage.

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of graduation at Tuskegee Institute

Photograph of graduation at Tuskegee Institute

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hieracium friesii Hartm.

Hieracium friesii Hartm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clerodendrum adenophysum Hall.

Clerodendrum adenophysum Hall.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Training aircraft used by Tuskegee Institute

Training aircraft used by Tuskegee Institute

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coleus schimperi Vatke

Coleus schimperi Vatke

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee Institute

Photograph of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee Institute

Artist not stated in the record · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of the 1929 Tuskegee Institute men's basketball team

Photograph of the 1929 Tuskegee Institute men's basketball team

Artist not stated in the record · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Souvenir Program for the Southern Tennis Association Annual Tournament, by Southern Tennis Association, American, founded 1881

Souvenir Program for the Southern Tennis Association Annual Tournament

Southern Tennis Association, American, founded 1881 · August 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pillow sham with Tuskegee Flying School poem

Pillow sham with Tuskegee Flying School poem

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1946

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 247962 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 02:27 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.