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 “Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:37 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.
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book

Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book

Artist not stated in the record · 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of a woman wearing a dress with hat and bag

Tintype of a woman wearing a dress with hat and bag

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Tintype photograph of a man identified as James Turner, with two women

Tintype photograph of a man identified as James Turner, with two women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of an woman wearing a hat, by Unidentified

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat

Unidentified · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a woman wearing a hat and holding a fan

Terracotta statuette of a woman wearing a hat and holding a fan

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man

Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of Emmaline

Tintype of Emmaline

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of two men wearing suits, by Unidentified

Tintype of two men wearing suits

Unidentified · 1855-1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man Holding a Book, by Master of the View of Saint Gudula

Young Man Holding a Book

Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Morning Dress, by Ackermann’s, London, England

Morning Dress

Ackermann’s, London, England · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Walking Dress, by Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834

Walking Dress

Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Matted tintype of Bachus

Matted tintype of Bachus

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals

Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals

Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1925

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. 433 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. 4067701 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 02:37 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.