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 “The Man at the Window” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 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.
Window

Window

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
The Man at the Window

The Man at the Window

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Drawing

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At the Milliner's, by Edgar Degas

At the Milliner's

Edgar Degas · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.

Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.

Artist not stated in the record · 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jubal and Miriam, by William Jay Bolton

Jubal and Miriam

William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa

Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke, by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Public domainThe Met
Window card for Bargain with Bullets, by Million Dollar Productions, American, 1937 - 1940

Window card for Bargain with Bullets

Million Dollar Productions, American, 1937 - 1940 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with Gloves, by Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Photographic print of 8 people in front of a building

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
The Organ and the Voice Once More Beneath Our Very Windows, by Frederick Coffay Yohn, American, 1875–1933

The Organ and the Voice Once More Beneath Our Very Windows

Frederick Coffay Yohn, American, 1875–1933 · ca. 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies Blown in the Wind, by John La Farge

Peonies Blown in the Wind

John La Farge · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Couple at a Window

Couple at a Window

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
View of the Interior of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn, Looking West Toward the Rose Window, by Unknown

View of the Interior of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn, Looking West Toward the Rose Window

Unknown · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a man identified as "Uncle Charlie"

Tintype of a man identified as "Uncle Charlie"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York, by John La Farge

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York

John La Farge · 1908–9

Public domainThe Met
Design for One Floor of a Painted Facade, by Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641

Design for One Floor of a Painted Facade

Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · 1580–1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619), by Jacob Halder

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Public domainThe Met
Design for Elevation of a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for Elevation of a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

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. 6758 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1340531 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.