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. 16 shown for “Taylor & Perry” — 46 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:00 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.
Vinaigrette, by Taylor & Perry

Vinaigrette

Taylor & Perry · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Erigeron quercifolius Lam.

Erigeron quercifolius Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Henry Augustus Carter, by Nicholas Biddle Kittell

Charles Henry Augustus Carter

Nicholas Biddle Kittell · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Mononeuria paludicola (Fassett) Dillenb. & Kadereit

Mononeuria paludicola (Fassett) Dillenb. & Kadereit

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Scutellaria multiglandulosa (Kearney) Small

Scutellaria multiglandulosa (Kearney) Small

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl var. puberula

Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl var. puberula

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium sp.

Cosmarium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desmidium swartzii

Desmidium swartzii

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizochlamys aurantica

Schizochlamys aurantica

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microspora wittrockii

Microspora wittrockii

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microspora stagnorum

Microspora stagnorum

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Batrachospermum sp.

Batrachospermum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desmidium aptogonium

Desmidium aptogonium

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaucheria terrestris

Vaucheria terrestris

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 124 matched · 40 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 2026-08-28 08:00 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.