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 “W. Becker” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 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.
Solophon, by Becker

Solophon

Becker · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Entryway to Schloss Epstein, by W. Becker

Entryway to Schloss Epstein

W. Becker · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Viola acutifolia (Kar. & Kir.) W. Becker

Viola acutifolia (Kar. & Kir.) W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 1895 to 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Chariot of Aurora, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Chariot of Aurora

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Male Figure

Seated Male Figure

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Viola faurieana W. Becker

Viola faurieana W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Viola faurieana W. Becker

Viola faurieana W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beale Street Blues, by Fred Becker

Beale Street Blues

Fred Becker · 1935–40

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trombone Player, by Fred Becker

Trombone Player

Fred Becker · 1935–40

Public domainThe Met
Viola chaerophylloides (Regel) W. Becker

Viola chaerophylloides (Regel) W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piano Player, by Fred Becker

Piano Player

Fred Becker · 1935–40

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapid Transit, by Fred Becker

Rapid Transit

Fred Becker · 1935–43

Public domainThe Met
Viola hossei W. Becker

Viola hossei W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lindy Hop, by Fred Becker

Lindy Hop

Fred Becker · 1935–40

Public domainThe Met
Viola yunnanfuensis W. Becker

Viola yunnanfuensis W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrival of Brass Section, by Fred Becker

Arrival of Brass Section

Fred Becker · 1935–43

Public domainThe Met
Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Viola mandshurica W. Becker

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1890

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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 915877 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 05:00 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.