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. 17 shown for “United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:23 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.
The New Bonnet, by Eastman Johnson

The New Bonnet

Eastman Johnson · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Views of West Point. Hudson River Scenery.

Views of West Point. Hudson River Scenery.

Artist not stated in the record · 1873-1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Cuff links with West Point emblem worn by General Colin L. Powell, by United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802

Cuff links with West Point emblem worn by General Colin L. Powell

United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802 · 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola, by Robert Horne

Viola

Robert Horne · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Second Lieutenant Charles Young, 9th Cavalry

Cabinet card of Second Lieutenant Charles Young, 9th Cavalry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, by United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802

Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy

United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802 · June 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Giuseppe Ceracchi

George Washington

Giuseppe Ceracchi · 1795

Public domainThe Met
Lever pouch padlock

Lever pouch padlock

Artist not stated in the record · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Percussion Target Rifle, by Julius Grudchos

Percussion Target Rifle

Julius Grudchos · ca. 1855–60

Public domainThe Met
Sampler, by Julia Ann Fitch

Sampler

Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

Public domainThe Met
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Thomas W. Commeraw

Jar

Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Public domainThe Met
The Shepherdess of the Alps, by Evelina Hull

The Shepherdess of the Alps

Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
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. 220 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 6025009 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 14:23 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.