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. 12 shown for “Truck Train unloading 366 Inf. Bruyers, Vosges, France. Aug 12, 1918” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:54 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.
Truck Train unloading 366 Inf. Bruyers, Vosges, France. Aug 12, 1918

Truck Train unloading 366 Inf. Bruyers, Vosges, France. Aug 12, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 12, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
366 Inf. 92nd Div. Ainville, Vosges, France - Aug 11. 1918

366 Inf. 92nd Div. Ainville, Vosges, France - Aug 11. 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 11, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918

"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918

3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix tinctoria C. Agardh

Calothrix tinctoria C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · -- Spr ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blacksmith Shop, 366 Inf., Sergueux, Hte. Marne, France. Aug 11, 1918.

Blacksmith Shop, 366 Inf., Sergueux, Hte. Marne, France. Aug 11, 1918.

Artist not stated in the record · August 11, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphrasia ericetorum Jord. ex Boreau

Euphrasia ericetorum Jord. ex Boreau

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub

Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mess 317 Supply Train - Belleville Meuse, Oct 12, 1918

Mess 317 Supply Train - Belleville Meuse, Oct 12, 1918

Artist not stated in the record · October 12, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of soldiers unloading mail at Fort Upton, New York

Photograph of soldiers unloading mail at Fort Upton, New York

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oreopteris limbosperma (All.) K. Iwats.

Oreopteris limbosperma (All.) K. Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1906

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1334252 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-10 05:54 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.