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. 16 shown for “Unidentified (Puerto Rican)” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:52 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.
Jíbaro Guitar

Jíbaro Guitar

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th Century

Public domainThe Met
Nino con Cotorra de Juguete, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Nino con Cotorra de Juguete

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1830-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolás Matías Fernández Méndez, by José Campeche

Portrait of Nicolás Matías Fernández Méndez

José Campeche · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Portrait of a Gentleman

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity, by José Campeche

The Trinity

José Campeche · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Caballero con lentes de la familia Canals, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Caballero con lentes de la familia Canals

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1840-1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rattle

Rattle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865–89

Public domainThe Met
Joven criolla, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Joven criolla

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1835-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caballero desconocido con bigote, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Caballero desconocido con bigote

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgen de Monserrate, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Virgen de Monserrate

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1775-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soldado desconocido, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Soldado desconocido

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Santa Barbara, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Santa Barbara

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1680-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dama con vestido blanco, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Dama con vestido blanco

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caballero de la familia Figueras Suro, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Caballero de la familia Figueras Suro

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ninos de la familia Canals, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Ninos de la familia Canals

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dama rubia de la familia Canals, by Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Dama rubia de la familia Canals

Unidentified (Puerto Rican) · ca. 1835-1840

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. 56 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 105910 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 22:52 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.