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. 17 shown for “Eugenia involucrata DC.” — 53 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 23:40 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.
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808), by John Hoppner

Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)

John Hoppner · 1793

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'impératrice Eugénie en prière, by Gustave Le Gray

L'impératrice Eugénie en prière

Gustave Le Gray · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell Pendant

Bell Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Avian Bell

Avian Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1914 to 21 Jul 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure Pendant

Figure Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–16th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia involucrata DC.

Eugenia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scène près d'un étang au moulin du Petit-Mourmelon, by Gustave Le Gray

Scène près d'un étang au moulin du Petit-Mourmelon

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Clidemia involucrata DC.

Clidemia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooden Staircase at Chartres, by Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq

Wooden Staircase at Chartres

Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Clidemia involucrata DC.

Clidemia involucrata DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chêne dans les rochers à Fontainebleau, by Gustave Le Gray

Chêne dans les rochers à Fontainebleau

Gustave Le Gray · 1849–52

Public domainThe Met
Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant, by Gustave Le Gray

Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant

Gustave Le Gray · ca. 1856

Public domainThe Met
The Ramparts of Carcassonne, by Gustave Le Gray

The Ramparts of Carcassonne

Gustave Le Gray · 1851

Public domainThe Met
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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263670 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 23:40 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.