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 “Banisteria elegans var. guatemalensis Nied.” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:32 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.
Banisteria elegans var. guatemalensis Nied.

Banisteria elegans var. guatemalensis Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria elegans subsp. cordata var. ciliata Nied.

Banisteria elegans subsp. cordata var. ciliata Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1898 to 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria elegans subsp. cordata var. grandifolia Nied.

Banisteria elegans subsp. cordata var. grandifolia Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1913 to 28 Apr 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria metallicolor var. subrotunda Nied.

Banisteria metallicolor var. subrotunda Nied.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria leiocarpa var. parvifolia Nied. in Engl.

Banisteria leiocarpa var. parvifolia Nied. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria argentea var. obtusiuscula Nied.

Banisteria argentea var. obtusiuscula Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria argentea var. obtusiuscula Nied.

Banisteria argentea var. obtusiuscula Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria campestris var. lancifolia Nied.

Banisteria campestris var. lancifolia Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria argentea var. transiens Nied.

Banisteria argentea var. transiens Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria leiocarpa var. parvifolia Nied. in Engl.

Banisteria leiocarpa var. parvifolia Nied. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria parviflora var. boliviensis Nied.

Banisteria parviflora var. boliviensis Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banisteria argentea var. acuminata Nied.

Banisteria argentea var. acuminata Nied.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 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. 240989 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-08 17:32 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.