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. 23 shown for “receipt for package” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:24 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.
Tax Receipt for Wine

Tax Receipt for Wine

Artist not stated in the record · 174 BCE

Public domainThe Met
receipt for package

receipt for package

Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Public domainThe Met
Sandy Spring, MD, REGISTERED handstamp

Sandy Spring, MD, REGISTERED handstamp

Artist not stated in the record · January 1, 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead Christ Supported by Angels, by Francesco Trevisani

Dead Christ Supported by Angels

Francesco Trevisani · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Folded letter to the General Post Office from R.M.C., January 1808

Folded letter to the General Post Office from R.M.C., January 1808

Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for ten dollars from Lucille Brown, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Receipt for ten dollars from Lucille Brown

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · February 28, 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 537 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas

Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–331 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel

Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel

Artist not stated in the record · September 8, 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for dates

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for dates

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 517 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook

Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook

Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for garments

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for garments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 498 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis

Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis

Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Companions of Rinaldo, by Nicolas Poussin

The Companions of Rinaldo

Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles, by Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953

Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles

Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953 · November 24, 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Receipt signed by Fats Waller, by Unidentified

Receipt signed by Fats Waller

Unidentified · March 1, 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a receipt for silver

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a receipt for silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–486 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Letter

Letter

Artist not stated in the record · March 20, 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 557 BCE

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. 979 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 432018 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 21:24 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.