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 “Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:42 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.
Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Dec 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra caloneura Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra caloneura Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra viridifolia Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra viridifolia Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra nubium Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra nubium Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra panamensis Standl. & L.O. Williams

Clethra panamensis Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clethra oleoides L.O. Williams

Clethra oleoides L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moussonia rupicola (Standl. & L.O. Williams) Wiehler

Moussonia rupicola (Standl. & L.O. Williams) Wiehler

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus chiapensis Standl. & L.O. Williams ex A.M. Molina

Prunus chiapensis Standl. & L.O. Williams ex A.M. Molina

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lonchocarpus molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Lonchocarpus molinae Standl. & L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus chiapensis Standl. & L.O. Williams ex A.M. Molina

Prunus chiapensis Standl. & L.O. Williams ex A.M. Molina

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1974

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. 1091 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 09:42 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.