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 “United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:33 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.
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wentworth House

Wentworth House

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Thomas Affleck

Armchair

Thomas Affleck · ca. 1766

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia

Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–66, remodeled 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

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. 391 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 6082718 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-01 11:33 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.