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 “Fissidens calabariae Müll. Hal. ex Dusén” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:07 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.
Fissidens calabariae Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Fissidens calabariae Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens glauculus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Fissidens glauculus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens sarcophyllus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Fissidens sarcophyllus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1926 to 27 Aug 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens glauculus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Fissidens glauculus Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens caespitulosus Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Fissidens caespitulosus Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens leptocladus Müll. Hal. ex Rodway

Fissidens leptocladus Müll. Hal. ex Rodway

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens pseudoincurvatus Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Fissidens pseudoincurvatus Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens oediloma Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Fissidens oediloma Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens antennidens Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Fissidens antennidens Müll. Hal. ex Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Macromitrium bifasciculare Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Macromitrium bifasciculare Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilotrichella sordido-viridis Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Pilotrichella sordido-viridis Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hyophila crenulata Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Hyophila crenulata Müll. Hal. ex Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1967

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. 417045 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 08:07 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.