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 “Chubbuck, Thomas” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

J.R. Hewitt, Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker, by Chubbuck, Thomas

J.R. Hewitt, Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker

Chubbuck, Thomas · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perityle emoryi Torr. in Emory

Perityle emoryi Torr. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phacelia distans Benth.

Phacelia distans Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chylismia claviformis (Torr. & Frém.) A. Heller

Chylismia claviformis (Torr. & Frém.) A. Heller

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chylismia claviformis subsp. aurantiaca (Munz) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Chylismia claviformis subsp. aurantiaca (Munz) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peritoma arborea (Nutt.) Iltis

Peritoma arborea (Nutt.) Iltis

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaenactis fremontii A. Gray

Chaenactis fremontii A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Malacothrix glabrata (A. Gray ex D.C. Eaton) A. Gray

Malacothrix glabrata (A. Gray ex D.C. Eaton) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phacelia campanularia subsp. vasiformis G.W. Gillett

Phacelia campanularia subsp. vasiformis G.W. Gillett

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ephedra californica S. Watson

Ephedra californica S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ephedra californica S. Watson

Ephedra californica S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 2019

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119258 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 21:20 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.