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 “Hall, J. Bishop” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Patent model for painting on translucent surfaces, by Hall, J. Bishop

Patent model for painting on translucent surfaces

Hall, J. Bishop · ca 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyclophyllum barbatum (G. Forst.) N. Hallé & J. Florence

Cyclophyllum barbatum (G. Forst.) N. Hallé & J. Florence

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyclophyllum barbatum (G. Forst.) N. Hallé & J. Florence

Cyclophyllum barbatum (G. Forst.) N. Hallé & J. Florence

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa (Nutt.) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa (Nutt.) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cochlidium serrulatum (Sw.) L.E. Bishop

Cochlidium serrulatum (Sw.) L.E. Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ficus benghalensis L.

Ficus benghalensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ericameria cooperi (A. Gray) Hall

Ericameria cooperi (A. Gray) Hall

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staircase to Arcade in Bishop’s Palace, by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765

Staircase to Arcade in Bishop’s Palace

Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirabilis sp.

Mirabilis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1906

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1216461 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.