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 “Wessmann, Martin F.” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:45 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.
Combination table, by Martin Carlin

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Telegraph Key, by Wessmann, Martin F.

Telegraph Key

Wessmann, Martin F. · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Christian Frederick Martin

Guitar

Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1838

Public domainThe Met
Wessmann Game Counter, U.S. Patent Office Model, by Wessmann, Charles B.

Wessmann Game Counter, U.S. Patent Office Model

Wessmann, Charles B. · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Christian Frederick Martin

Guitar

Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle spoon: St. Andrew, by Martin Hewitt

Apostle spoon: St. Andrew

Martin Hewitt · 1613–14

Public domainThe Met
Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Christian Frederick Martin

Guitar

Christian Frederick Martin · before 1867

Public domainThe Met
Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Acis rosea (F. Martin bis) Sweet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature, by G. F. R. Molé

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Public domainThe Met
Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Serjania glabrata f. genuina Radlk.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valve Trumpet in F, by Courtois & Mille

Valve Trumpet in F

Courtois & Mille · 1881–85

Public domainThe Met
Sanchezia longiflora (Hook. f.) Hook. f. ex Planch.

Sanchezia longiflora (Hook. f.) Hook. f. ex Planch.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Martin, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

St. Martin

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Symphonia globulifera L. f.

Symphonia globulifera L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gwantigi, by Bamana numu (blacksmith)

Gwantigi

Bamana numu (blacksmith) · 15th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ficus pertusa L. f.

Ficus pertusa L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Dec 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Martin Luther, by Johann Michael Püchler

Portrait of Martin Luther

Johann Michael Püchler · ca. 1680–1702

Public domainThe Met
Tabernaemontana siphilitica (L. f.) Leeuwenb.

Tabernaemontana siphilitica (L. f.) Leeuwenb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1968

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. 1256 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. 684727 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 17:45 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.