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 “Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:47 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.
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, by Unidentified

Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4

Unidentified · 1956-1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, by Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842

The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4

Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842 · 1956-1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Segna di Buonaventura

Madonna and Child

Segna di Buonaventura · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign, by Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Benedict, by Segna di Buonaventura

Saint Benedict

Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Silvester Gozzolini, by Segna di Buonaventura

Saint Silvester Gozzolini

Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist, by Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini · ca. 1523

Public domainThe Met
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea Solario

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Public domainThe Met
Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel, by Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo)

Madonna Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel

Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago, by National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Artist not stated in the record · September 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church, by Unidentified

Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church

Unidentified · 1915-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, by Unidentified

Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church

Unidentified · April 9, 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross, by Northern Highlands artist

Processional Cross

Northern Highlands artist · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church, by Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950

Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church

Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950 · 1973

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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1048147 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-06 13:47 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.