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 “Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:40 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.
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Feb 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B. Hutch. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach.) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach.) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach.) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach.) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1979 to 3 Mar 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Gossypium hirsutum var. marie-galante (Watt) J.B. Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1997

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. 164469 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 18:40 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.