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 “Youth and Dervish” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 12:58 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.
Youth and Dervish

Youth and Dervish

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Dervish/Bartinado in Persia, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Dervish/Bartinado in Persia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Youth

Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dancing Dervishes of Pera, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Dancing Dervishes of Pera

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gypsy Dervish, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Gypsy Dervish

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze helmet

Bronze helmet

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dancing Dervish, Constantinople, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Dancing Dervish, Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age

Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · February 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, by NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze youth

Bronze youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button for Project Youth

Pinback button for Project Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Two Cheyenne Youth, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Two Cheyenne Youth

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a youth

Marble head of a youth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 490 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cheyenne Youth, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Cheyenne Youth

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Two Views of the Head of a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

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. 3331 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1463786 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-30 12:58 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.