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 “Bauhinia eucosma S.F. Blake” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:13 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.
Bauhinia eucosma S.F. Blake

Bauhinia eucosma S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia eucosma S.F. Blake

Bauhinia eucosma S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinotropis lindheimeri var. eucosma (S.F. Blake) J.R. Abbott

Rhinotropis lindheimeri var. eucosma (S.F. Blake) J.R. Abbott

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1905 to 4 Jul 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinotropis lindheimeri var. eucosma (S.F. Blake) J.R. Abbott

Rhinotropis lindheimeri var. eucosma (S.F. Blake) J.R. Abbott

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia mollicella S.F. Blake

Bauhinia mollicella S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Bauhinia obovata S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bauhinia caudigera S.F. Blake

Bauhinia caudigera S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1920 to 10 Jun 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prosanerpis trichocalyx S.F. Blake

Prosanerpis trichocalyx S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archibaccharis flexilis (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Archibaccharis flexilis (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archibaccharis hieracioides (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Archibaccharis hieracioides (S.F. Blake) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1928

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. 30814 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 15:13 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.