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 “Boea multiflora var. burmanica C.B. Clarke” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:10 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.
Boea multiflora var. burmanica C.B. Clarke

Boea multiflora var. burmanica C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Callicarpa farinosa Roxb. ex C.B. Clarke

Callicarpa farinosa Roxb. ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boea philippensis C.B. Clarke

Boea philippensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boea philippensis C.B. Clarke

Boea philippensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1914 to Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kaisupeea herbacea (C.B. Clarke) B.L. Burtt

Kaisupeea herbacea (C.B. Clarke) B.L. Burtt

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Dorcoceras philippense (C.B. Clarke) Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leptoboea multiflora (C.B. Clarke) Gamble ex C.B. Clarke

Leptoboea multiflora (C.B. Clarke) Gamble ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commelina africana var. barberae (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Commelina africana var. barberae (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray var. multiflora

Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray var. multiflora

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliomeris multiflora var. nevadensis (A. Nelson) Blake

Heliomeris multiflora var. nevadensis (A. Nelson) Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 2012

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. 295772 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 02:10 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.