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 “Thomas Small” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:10 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.
[Group of 15 Early Stereograph Views of Cambridge, England and the Surrounding Area], by Thomas Small

[Group of 15 Early Stereograph Views of Cambridge, England and the Surrounding Area]

Thomas Small · 1860s–80s

Public domainThe Met
Erythrodiplax umbrata

Erythrodiplax umbrata

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Erythrodiplax umbrata

Erythrodiplax umbrata

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Young Peasant Women, by Camille Pissarro

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Lestes forficula

Lestes forficula

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 16 Early Stereograph Views of British Abbeys], by Unknown

[Group of 16 Early Stereograph Views of British Abbeys]

Unknown · 1850s–60s

Public domainThe Met
Populus deltoides W. Bartram ex Marshall

Populus deltoides W. Bartram ex Marshall

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers, by Camille Pissarro

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook, by Unidentified

Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook

Unidentified · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823), by Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Drypetes chevalieri Beille ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Drypetes chevalieri Beille ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.

Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by John Trumbull

Thomas Jefferson

John Trumbull · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel

Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1987 to 4 May 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Drypetes similis Hutch. in Dyer

Drypetes similis Hutch. in Dyer

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1985 to 21 Apr 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel

Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Sallet (Celatina), by Missaglia workshop

Small Sallet (Celatina)

Missaglia workshop · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Margaritaria discoidea (Baill.) G.L. Webster

Margaritaria discoidea (Baill.) G.L. Webster

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by François Thomas Germain

Coffeepot

François Thomas Germain · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.

Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986

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. 893 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. 195312 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 00:10 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.