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. 16 shown for “Franz Adam Weber” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Console table, by Franz Adam Weber

Console table

Franz Adam Weber · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Henckelia humboldtiana (Gardner) A. Weber & B.L. Burtt

Henckelia humboldtiana (Gardner) A. Weber & B.L. Burtt

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Public domainThe Met
Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transverse Flute in D-flat, by Claude Laurent

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Claude Laurent · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera plattensis W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa cusickii subsp. epilis (Scribn.) W.A. Weber

Poa cusickii subsp. epilis (Scribn.) W.A. Weber

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera antennariifolia (Britton) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera antennariifolia (Britton) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pohlia wahlenbergii (F. Weber & D. Mohr) A.L. Andrews

Pohlia wahlenbergii (F. Weber & D. Mohr) A.L. Andrews

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ptilidium pulcherrimum (G.H. Weber) Hampe

Ptilidium pulcherrimum (G.H. Weber) Hampe

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taraxacum officinale G.H. Weber ex F.H. Wigg.

Taraxacum officinale G.H. Weber ex F.H. Wigg.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1938

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. 110 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 42335 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.