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 “Cymopterus deserticola Brandegee” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:12 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.
Cymopterus deserticola Brandegee

Cymopterus deserticola Brandegee

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymopterus deserticola Brandegee

Cymopterus deserticola Brandegee

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/5/20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deyeuxia deserticola Phil. var. deserticola

Deyeuxia deserticola Phil. var. deserticola

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola

Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymopterus lapidosus var. deserti M.E. Jones

Cymopterus lapidosus var. deserti M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymopterus fendleri A. Gray

Cymopterus fendleri A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1847 to May 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymopterus utahensis var. eastwoodiae M.E. Jones

Cymopterus utahensis var. eastwoodiae M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cymopterus montanus var. globosus S. Watson in C. King

Cymopterus montanus var. globosus S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Lasiosiphon deserticola (Gilg) C.H. Wright

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola

Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1891

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. 8193 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 13:12 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.