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 “Ferula kelifi Korovin” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 00:45 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.
Ferula kelifi Korovin

Ferula kelifi Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferula tuberifera Korovin

Ferula tuberifera Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bunium badghysi (Korovin) Korovin

Bunium badghysi (Korovin) Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1948 to 9 Jun 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Physospermum kopetdaghense Korovin

Physospermum kopetdaghense Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Calligonum turkestanicum (Korovin) Pavlov

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Onobrychis lipskyi Korovin

Onobrychis lipskyi Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dorema aitchisonii Korovin ex Pimenov

Dorema aitchisonii Korovin ex Pimenov

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scaligeria setacea (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Korovin

Scaligeria setacea (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cryptodiscus didymus (Regel) Korovin

Cryptodiscus didymus (Regel) Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scaligeria setacea (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Korovin

Scaligeria setacea (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Korovin

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1937

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. 181 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 2026-09-09 00:45 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.