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 “Bromus porteri var. assimilis Burtt Davy” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:32 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.
Bromus porteri var. assimilis Burtt Davy

Bromus porteri var. assimilis Burtt Davy

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus sitchensis var. polyanthus (Scribn. ex Shear) R.E. Brainerd & Otting

Bromus sitchensis var. polyanthus (Scribn. ex Shear) R.E. Brainerd & Otting

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus sitchensis var. polyanthus (Scribn. ex Shear) R.E. Brainerd & Otting

Bromus sitchensis var. polyanthus (Scribn. ex Shear) R.E. Brainerd & Otting

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus carinatus var. marginatus (Nees ex Steud.) Barkworth & Anderton

Bromus carinatus var. marginatus (Nees ex Steud.) Barkworth & Anderton

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus carinatus var. marginatus (Nees ex Steud.) Barkworth & Anderton

Bromus carinatus var. marginatus (Nees ex Steud.) Barkworth & Anderton

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus marginatus var. maritimus Piper

Bromus marginatus var. maritimus Piper

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1900 to Jul 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus porteri var. frondosus Shear

Bromus porteri var. frondosus Shear

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus porteri var. lanatipes Shear

Bromus porteri var. lanatipes Shear

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus kalmii var. porteri J.M. Coult.

Bromus kalmii var. porteri J.M. Coult.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus porteri var. havardii Shear, nom. illeg.

Bromus porteri var. havardii Shear, nom. illeg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus racemosus L.

Bromus racemosus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus secalinus L.

Bromus secalinus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1896

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. 267181 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 16:32 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.