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 “Euphorbia dentata var. rigida Engelm. in Emory” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:33 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.
Euphorbia dentata var. rigida Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia dentata var. rigida Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia dentata var. cuphosperma Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia petaloidea var. flagelliformis Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia petaloidea var. flagelliformis Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia dioeca var. indivisa Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia dioeca var. indivisa Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia pilulifera var. discolor Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia pilulifera var. discolor Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia hypericifolia var. communis Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia hypericifolia var. communis Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia glyptosperma var. tenerrima Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 1851 to 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia revoluta Engelm. in Emory

Euphorbia revoluta Engelm. in Emory

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1899

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. 7462291 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-10 03:33 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.