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 “Cyphomandra caudata Standl.” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:06 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.
Cyphomandra caudata Standl.

Cyphomandra caudata Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1928 to Mar 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyphomandra mollicella Standl.

Cyphomandra mollicella Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Dec 1927 to 15 Mar 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyphomandra rojasiana Standl. & C.V. Morton

Cyphomandra rojasiana Standl. & C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyphomandra homalophylla Standl.

Cyphomandra homalophylla Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyphomandra rojasiana Standl. & C.V. Morton

Cyphomandra rojasiana Standl. & C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solanum rojasianum (Standl. & Steyerm.) Bohs

Solanum rojasianum (Standl. & Steyerm.) Bohs

Artist not stated in the record · 191

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solanum rojasianum (Standl. & Steyerm.) Bohs

Solanum rojasianum (Standl. & Steyerm.) Bohs

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Jarilla caudata (Brandegee) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senna caudata (Standl.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Senna caudata (Standl.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1943 or 1 Feb 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cephaelis caudata Standl. ex Steyerm.

Cephaelis caudata Standl. ex Steyerm.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1944 to 7 Mar 1944

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. 34250 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-10 05:06 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.