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 “Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw” — 42 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 11:03 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.
Santa Maria della Salute, by Francesco Guardi

Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi · mid- to late 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Aporosa antennifera (Airy Shaw) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa chalarocarpa Airy Shaw

Aporosa chalarocarpa Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa lucida (Miq.) Airy Shaw

Aporosa lucida (Miq.) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa heterodoxa Airy Shaw

Aporosa heterodoxa Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa hermaphrodita Airy Shaw

Aporosa hermaphrodita Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa granularis Airy Shaw

Aporosa granularis Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · 1982

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 1 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. 7929 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 2026-09-04 11:03 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.