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 “Drimia secunda (B. Nord.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:29 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.
Drimia secunda (B. Nord.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Drimia secunda (B. Nord.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drimia mascarenensis (Baker) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Drimia mascarenensis (Baker) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drimia dregei (Baker) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Drimia dregei (Baker) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drimia fragrans (Jacq.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Drimia fragrans (Jacq.) J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1906 to Apr 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Freesia verrucosa (B. Vogel) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hesperantha coccinea (Backh. & Harv.) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Hesperantha coccinea (Backh. & Harv.) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afrosolen bainesii (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Afrosolen bainesii (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 4/5/42

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tripteris calicola J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Tripteris calicola J.C. Manning & Goldblatt

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afrosolen erythranthus (Klotzsch ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Afrosolen erythranthus (Klotzsch ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1986

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. 506474 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 21:29 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.