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 “Bulimina inflata var. mexicana Cushman, 1922” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:05 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.
Bulimina inflata var. mexicana Cushman, 1922

Bulimina inflata var. mexicana Cushman, 1922

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina inflata var. alligata Cushman & Laiming, 1931

Bulimina inflata var. alligata Cushman & Laiming, 1931

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bolivina subaenariensis var. mexicana Cushman, 1922

Bolivina subaenariensis var. mexicana Cushman, 1922

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina arkadelphiana var. midwayensis Cushman & Parker, 1936

Bulimina arkadelphiana var. midwayensis Cushman & Parker, 1936

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina elongata var. subulata Cushman & Parker, 1937

Bulimina elongata var. subulata Cushman & Parker, 1937

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina reussi var. navarroensis Cushman & Parker, 1935

Bulimina reussi var. navarroensis Cushman & Parker, 1935

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina alazanensis var. spatiosa Cushman & Todd, 1945

Bulimina alazanensis var. spatiosa Cushman & Todd, 1945

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina pagoda var. deformata Cushman & Parker, 1938

Bulimina pagoda var. deformata Cushman & Parker, 1938

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina sculptilis var. laciniata Cushman & Parker, 1937

Bulimina sculptilis var. laciniata Cushman & Parker, 1937

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina guayabalensis var. ampla Cushman & Parker, 1936

Bulimina guayabalensis var. ampla Cushman & Parker, 1936

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina pagoda var. denudata Cushman & Parker, 1938

Bulimina pagoda var. denudata Cushman & Parker, 1938

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulimina uvigerinaformis var. charapotoensis Cushman & Stevenson, 1948

Bulimina uvigerinaformis var. charapotoensis Cushman & Stevenson, 1948

Artist not stated in the record

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. 306135 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 2026-09-04 22:05 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.