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. 23 shown for “Top for standard” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 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.
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of JR-1B mail airplane designed by the Standard Aircraft Corporation

Photograph of JR-1B mail airplane designed by the Standard Aircraft Corporation

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standard

Standard

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Catafalque for the Memorial Service of a Pope, probably Clement XI

Design for a Catafalque for the Memorial Service of a Pope, probably Clement XI

Artist not stated in the record · 1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Coat of Arms of a Cardinal

Project for the Coat of Arms of a Cardinal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decorations of Three Pilaster Strips, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decorations of Three Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XX, No. 19, by National Anti-Slavery Standard, American, 1840 - 1870

National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XX, No. 19

National Anti-Slavery Standard, American, 1840 - 1870 · September 24, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frieze

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frieze

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
US Forest Service metal hard hat worn by Melody Starya Mobley

US Forest Service metal hard hat worn by Melody Starya Mobley

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Frieze

Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1885–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Top for standard

Top for standard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

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. 12280 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. 473902 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 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.