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 “Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:30 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.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard

Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard

Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, by Bernard Romans

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775

Bernard Romans · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
William Goddard portrait

William Goddard portrait

Artist not stated in the record · unknown

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy, by Jean Le Noir

The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy

Jean Le Noir · before 1349

Public domainThe Met
Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper

Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper

Artist not stated in the record · March 15-22, 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress

Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Nathan Crocker and William Goddard, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Nathan Crocker and William Goddard

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Mud wagon-style stagecoach model

Mud wagon-style stagecoach model

Artist not stated in the record · 1868-1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Poa howellii Vasey & Scribn.

Poa howellii Vasey & Scribn.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A column of oriental travelers scattered by a dust storm, by William West

A column of oriental travelers scattered by a dust storm

William West · 1820–40

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Sheet Perfecting Flatbed Cylinder Press, by Kerr, William A.

Patent Model of a Sheet Perfecting Flatbed Cylinder Press

Kerr, William A. · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864, by Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876

Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864

Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie), by Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant)

Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie)

Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Festuca myuros var. hirsuta (Hack.) Asch. & Graebn.

Festuca myuros var. hirsuta (Hack.) Asch. & Graebn.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Deschampsia bolanderi (Thurb.) Saarela

Deschampsia bolanderi (Thurb.) Saarela

Artist not stated in the record · May 1893 to 16 May 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Asleep during the Tempest, by Eugène Delacroix

Christ Asleep during the Tempest

Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Pan American Airways travel documents

Pan American Airways travel documents

Artist not stated in the record · April 6, 1944

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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 721093 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-31 21:30 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.