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 “Dennstaedtia obtusifolia var. protrusa Christ in Pittier” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:32 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.
Dennstaedtia obtusifolia var. protrusa Christ in Pittier

Dennstaedtia obtusifolia var. protrusa Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ficus obtusifolia Kunth

Ficus obtusifolia Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypolepis repens var. colorata Christ in Pittier

Hypolepis repens var. colorata Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aspidium effusum var. muticum Christ in Pittier

Aspidium effusum var. muticum Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypolepis repens var. colorata Christ in Pittier

Hypolepis repens var. colorata Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Osteomeles intermedia Pittier

Osteomeles intermedia Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · 1898 to 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polybotrya acuminata var. villosa Christ in Pittier

Polybotrya acuminata var. villosa Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lycopodium clavatum var. pseudocontiguum Christ in Pittier

Lycopodium clavatum var. pseudocontiguum Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polypodium pectinatum var. hispidum Christ in Pittier

Polypodium pectinatum var. hispidum Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteris quadriaurita var. asperula Christ in Pittier

Pteris quadriaurita var. asperula Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alsophila leucolepis var. pubescens Christ in Pittier

Alsophila leucolepis var. pubescens Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lycopodium reflexum var. brevissimum Christ in Pittier

Lycopodium reflexum var. brevissimum Christ in Pittier

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1897

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. 7461919 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 2026-09-04 02:32 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.