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 “Unidentified Chapel and Building” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:09 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.
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Chapel and Building

Unidentified Chapel and Building

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jackson, Owners, by Unidentified

Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Jackson, Owners

Unidentified · 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model of a Renaissance Church

Model of a Renaissance Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Chapel seen through a Colonnade, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Chapel seen through a Colonnade

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

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
Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serape, by Unidentified

Serape

Unidentified · ca. 1865–70

Public domainThe Met
Pew from the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, by Unidentified

Pew from the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Unidentified · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serape, by Unidentified

Serape

Unidentified · ca. 1840–50

Public domainThe Met
Front Elevation of Chapel, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, by Ernest Flagg, American, 1857–1947

Front Elevation of Chapel, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

Ernest Flagg, American, 1857–1947 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chief's blanket, by Unidentified

Chief's blanket

Unidentified · 1865–70

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman

Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serape, by Unidentified

Serape

Unidentified · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · 1892-1911

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. 530 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1472151 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-07 08:09 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.