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 “ELLEET E EVC ROS” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 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.
ELLEET E EVC ROS

ELLEET E EVC ROS

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melilotus segetalis Ser.

Melilotus segetalis Ser.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rudgea freemanii Sprague & R.O. Williams in R.O. Williams & Cheesman

Rudgea freemanii Sprague & R.O. Williams in R.O. Williams & Cheesman

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Dec 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atractylis prolifera Boiss.

Atractylis prolifera Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myrcia fallax (Rich.) DC.

Myrcia fallax (Rich.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyclosorus interruptus (Willd.) H. Itô

Cyclosorus interruptus (Willd.) H. Itô

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alibertia trinitatis Sprague & R.O. Williams in R.O. Williams & Cheesman

Alibertia trinitatis Sprague & R.O. Williams in R.O. Williams & Cheesman

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.

Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliocarpus americanus L.

Heliocarpus americanus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.

Rudgea hostmanniana subsp. freemanii (C. Sprague & R.O. Williams ex R.O. Williams & Cheesman) Steyerm.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Dec 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichospermum grewiifolium (A. Rich.) Kosterm.

Trichospermum grewiifolium (A. Rich.) Kosterm.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1990

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. 1105611 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 19:19 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.