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. 13 shown for “Alida Withoos” — 41 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 13:44 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.
Study of a Crested Cockscomb (Celosia argentea cristata), by Alida Withoos

Study of a Crested Cockscomb (Celosia argentea cristata)

Alida Withoos · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart

Photographic postcard of Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phalaenopsis [(Elizabeth Ruth × Line Renaud) × Petit Alida] × P. Red Charm

Phalaenopsis [(Elizabeth Ruth × Line Renaud) × Petit Alida] × P. Red Charm

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria mammillaris (Mont.) M. Howe in Britton

Gracilaria mammillaris (Mont.) M. Howe in Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen

Gracilaria foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Codium decorticatum (Woodw.) M. Howe

Codium decorticatum (Woodw.) M. Howe

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux

Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stypopodium zonale (J.V.Lamouroux) Papenf.

Stypopodium zonale (J.V.Lamouroux) Papenf.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grateloupia filicina (J.V.Lamouroux) C. Agardh

Grateloupia filicina (J.V.Lamouroux) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Begonia semiovata Liebm.

Begonia semiovata Liebm.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linochilus rupestris (Kunth) Saldivia & O.M. Vargas

Linochilus rupestris (Kunth) Saldivia & O.M. Vargas

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pterocladia capillacea

Pterocladia capillacea

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrangelia penicillata (C. Agardh) C. Agardh

Wrangelia penicillata (C. Agardh) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1971

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 46 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 13:44 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.