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. 18 shown for “Griffiths, Harry S.” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:19 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.
Clock case and vase, by George E. Ohr

Clock case and vase

George E. Ohr · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press, by Griffiths, Harry S.

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press

Griffiths, Harry S. · ca 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Pair of Stereograph Views of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, London, England], by J. F. Jarvis

[Pair of Stereograph Views of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, London, England]

J. F. Jarvis · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Calloides nobilis

Calloides nobilis

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Westminster Abbey, London, England], by European and American Views

[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Westminster Abbey, London, England]

European and American Views · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Nitella flexilis (L.) C. Agardh

Nitella flexilis (L.) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. var. tenuis

Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. var. tenuis

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation, by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation

Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400

Public domainThe Met
Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/11/89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/8/90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Oryza rufipogon Griffith

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/11/89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer spicatum Lam.

Acer spicatum Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eupatorium fistulosum Barratt

Eupatorium fistulosum Barratt

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Callitriche heterophylla Pursh emend. Darby

Callitriche heterophylla Pursh emend. Darby

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chelone glabra L.

Chelone glabra L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1941

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. 6385 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 886703 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 22:19 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.