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 “Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:05 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.
Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1923 to 18 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1923 to 18 Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris crassiuscula C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1923 to 18 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris jimenezii Maxon & C. Chr.

Dryopteris jimenezii Maxon & C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris aripensis C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris aripensis C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris killipii C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris killipii C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1918 to 19 Feb 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris killipii C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris killipii C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1918 to 19 Feb 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris shaferi Maxon & C. Chr.

Dryopteris shaferi Maxon & C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris dissimulans Maxon & C. Chr.

Dryopteris dissimulans Maxon & C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris aripensis C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris aripensis C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr.

Dryopteris atrovirens C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris macbridei C. Chr. & Maxon

Dryopteris macbridei C. Chr. & Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1923

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. 1724 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 2026-09-05 08:05 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.