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. 17 shown for “The General Tjahapimu” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:43 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.
The General Tjahapimu

The General Tjahapimu

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Framed photograph of General Colin L. Powell's swearing in as Secretary of State

Framed photograph of General Colin L. Powell's swearing in as Secretary of State

Artist not stated in the record · January 26, 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a High General

Torso of a High General

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
General Post Office report

General Post Office report

Artist not stated in the record · January 20, 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Greek general

Marble head of a Greek general

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
US Army subdued star insignia worn by General Colin L. Powell

US Army subdued star insignia worn by General Colin L. Powell

Artist not stated in the record · 1979-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vertical panels with garland, by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Vertical panels with garland

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
"General Delivery" sign

"General Delivery" sign

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Fire (Venus Visiting Vulcan), by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Allegory of Fire (Venus Visiting Vulcan)

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Burial flag of Colin L. Powell, by United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775

Burial flag of Colin L. Powell

United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · November 5, 2021

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over-window panels, by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Over-window panels

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Mirror surround with vases, by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Mirror surround with vases

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Two overdoor panels with vases, by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Two overdoor panels with vases

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Vertical Panels with Cherry Spray, by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Vertical Panels with Cherry Spray

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of Air (Cephalus and Aurora) and Earth (Vertumnus and Pomona), by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Allegories of Air (Cephalus and Aurora) and Earth (Vertumnus and Pomona)

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of Water (Neptune Rescuing Amymone), by Jacques Germain Soufflot

Allegory of Water (Neptune Rescuing Amymone)

Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

Public domainThe Met
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

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. 6102 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1203045 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 08:43 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.