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 “Cyperus planifolius var. ottonis (Boeckeler) Kük.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:57 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.
Cyperus planifolius var. ottonis (Boeckeler) Kük.

Cyperus planifolius var. ottonis (Boeckeler) Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Dec 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus planifolius var. navassanus Ekman & Kük.

Cyperus planifolius var. navassanus Ekman & Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus planifolius var. navassanus Ekman & Kük.

Cyperus planifolius var. navassanus Ekman & Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus minarum Boeckeler

Cyperus minarum Boeckeler

Artist not stated in the record · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus eggersii var. laticeps Kük. in Engl.

Cyperus eggersii var. laticeps Kük. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus hillebrandii var. helleri Kük. in Engl.

Cyperus hillebrandii var. helleri Kük. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus (Boeckeler) Kük.

Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus (Boeckeler) Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1886 to Oct 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus (Boeckeler) Kük.

Cyperus amabilis var. macrostachyus (Boeckeler) Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885 to Nov 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus fendlerianus var. major Kük.

Cyperus fendlerianus var. major Kük.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus planifolius f. decolorans Kük. in Engl.

Cyperus planifolius f. decolorans Kük. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1890 to 31 Dec 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus planifolius f. decolorans Kük. in Engl.

Cyperus planifolius f. decolorans Kük. in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1890 to 31 Dec 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus atropurpureus Boeckeler, nom. illeg.

Cyperus atropurpureus Boeckeler, nom. illeg.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1880

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. 255627 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 17:57 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.