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. 13 shown for “Uniform cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan” — 42 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:02 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.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Uniform cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan

Uniform cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan

Artist not stated in the record · 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532–35

Public domainThe Met
Tie pin worn by Pullman porter Philip Henry Logan

Tie pin worn by Pullman porter Philip Henry Logan

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform cap worn by a Pullman porter

Uniform cap worn by a Pullman porter

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform cap owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Uniform cap owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform cap for a Pullman Porter

Uniform cap for a Pullman Porter

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform cap for a Pullman attendant

Uniform cap for a Pullman attendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1940s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hole punch used by Pullman porter Thomas McCord, by Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969

Hole punch used by Pullman porter Thomas McCord

Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969 · 1940s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photographic postcard of Pullman Porter, Omer Ester and his wife Jean

Photographic postcard of Pullman Porter, Omer Ester and his wife Jean

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacket for a Pullman porter uniform

Jacket for a Pullman porter uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniform vest owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Uniform vest owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four buttons from a Pullman Porter uniform

Four buttons from a Pullman Porter uniform

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th-mid 20th Century

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 642272 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 20:02 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.