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. 16 shown for “William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 07:03 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.
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Jumpsuit worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia, by William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990

Jumpsuit worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia

William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990 · 1968-1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dress worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia, by William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990

Dress worn by Diahann Carroll on the television show Julia

William Travilla, American, 1920 - 1990 · 1968-1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
World War II Patriotic cover, by Harry Ioor

World War II Patriotic cover

Harry Ioor · November 23, 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette, by Unidentified

Note from the Roger Williams University Quartette

Unidentified · 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
The Attarouthi Treasure - Wine Strainer

The Attarouthi Treasure - Wine Strainer

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

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. 250 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. 1840352 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 07:03 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.