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 “Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:20 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.
Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus S. Watson in C. King

Astragalus atratus S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Astragalus atratus var. stenophyllus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus atratus var. mensanus M.E. Jones

Astragalus atratus var. mensanus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus newberryi var. wardianus Barneby

Astragalus newberryi var. wardianus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus newberryi var. wardianus Barneby

Astragalus newberryi var. wardianus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus lentiginosus var. australis Barneby

Astragalus lentiginosus var. australis Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus lentiginosus var. wilsonii (Greene) Barneby

Astragalus lentiginosus var. wilsonii (Greene) Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1940

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. 246965 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 16:20 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.