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. 24 shown for “Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:08 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.
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918

Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Praeger on September 5, 1918

Telegram to Praeger on September 5, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

Public domainThe Met
Telegram

Telegram

Artist not stated in the record · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), by Gustav Klimt

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Praeger on September 6, 1918

Telegram to Praeger on September 6, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 4, 1918

Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 4, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943), by Gustav Klimt

Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)

Gustav Klimt · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 9, 1918

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 9, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 9, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entombment of Christ

Entombment of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 5, 1918

Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 5, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90 and later

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 3, 1918

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 3, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 3, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Ages of Humans, by Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero)

The Three Ages of Humans

Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Telegram

Telegram

Artist not stated in the record · 1918

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. 501 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1629269 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 23:08 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.