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 “Andropogon macrourus var. corymbosus Chapm. ex Hack. in A. DC.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 00:20 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Andropogon macrourus var. corymbosus Chapm. ex Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon macrourus var. corymbosus Chapm. ex Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · March

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon macrourus var. abbreviatus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon macrourus var. abbreviatus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon macrourus var. hirsutior Hack.

Andropogon macrourus var. hirsutior Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Oct 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon saccharoides var. submuticus Vasey ex Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon saccharoides var. submuticus Vasey ex Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon scoparius subsp. maritimus var. divergens Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon scoparius subsp. maritimus var. divergens Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon pertusus var. capensis Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon pertusus var. capensis Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus var. ovulifer Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus var. ovulifer Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon tristis var. muticus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon tristis var. muticus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon sorghum var. obovatus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon sorghum var. obovatus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon pertusus var. vegetior Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon pertusus var. vegetior Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon elliottii Chapm.

Andropogon elliottii Chapm.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon sorghum var. hybridus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon sorghum var. hybridus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

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. 7484681 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 00:20 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.