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. 12 shown for “Agropyron semicostatum var. subvillosum Hack.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 02:30 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.
Agropyron semicostatum var. subvillosum Hack.

Agropyron semicostatum var. subvillosum Hack.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agropyron semicostatum var. ciliare Hack.

Agropyron semicostatum var. ciliare Hack.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agropyron semicostatum var. transiens Hack.

Agropyron semicostatum var. transiens Hack.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elytrigia dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve subsp. dasystachya

Elytrigia dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve subsp. dasystachya

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elytrigia dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve subsp. dasystachya

Elytrigia dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve subsp. dasystachya

Artist not stated in the record · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agropyron multiflorum var. longisetum Hack. in Cheeseman

Agropyron multiflorum var. longisetum Hack. in Cheeseman

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agropyron pungens var. longiaristatum Hack.

Agropyron pungens var. longiaristatum Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agropyron repens var. scabriglume Hack. ex Stuck.

Agropyron repens var. scabriglume Hack. ex Stuck.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elymus semicostatus (Nees ex Steud.) Melderis

Elymus semicostatus (Nees ex Steud.) Melderis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elymus semicostatus (Nees ex Steud.) Melderis

Elymus semicostatus (Nees ex Steud.) Melderis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1939 or 8 Dec 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Citharexylum fruticosum var. subvillosum Moldenke

Citharexylum fruticosum var. subvillosum Moldenke

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Citharexylum fruticosum var. subvillosum Moldenke

Citharexylum fruticosum var. subvillosum Moldenke

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1892

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 235438 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 02:30 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.