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 New Yost Patent Model” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:35 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.
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940, by Samuel Colt

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940

Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
The New Yost Patent Model

The New Yost Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549, by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company · ca. 1868

Public domainThe Met
George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1838

Public domainThe Met
George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1889-07-30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406, by Samuel Colt

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs, by George A. Schastey

Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs

George A. Schastey · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Screw Propeller, Patent Model

Screw Propeller, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2, by Samuel Colt

Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2

Samuel Colt · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model, Tug for Towing Canal Boats

Patent Model, Tug for Towing Canal Boats

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank patent

Rank patent

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1761

Public domainThe Met
Schilling Canal Boat Propulsion System, Patent Model

Schilling Canal Boat Propulsion System, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306), by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Samuel W. Francis Typewriter Patent Model, by Francis, Samuel Ward

Samuel W. Francis Typewriter Patent Model

Francis, Samuel Ward · 1857-10-27

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Screw Propellor, Patent Model

Screw Propellor, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], by Unknown

[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window]

Unknown · late 1850s–60s

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Hosley Ship's Model Measurer, 1851

Patent Model for Hosley Ship's Model Measurer, 1851

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics

Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1844

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. 53 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. 1473327 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 23:35 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.