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. 15 shown for “Hasegawa Mitsunobu” — 28 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 11:42 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.
Two Women in a Room Opening on a Verandah, by Hasegawa Mitsunobu

Two Women in a Room Opening on a Verandah

Hasegawa Mitsunobu · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Cattleya purpurata var. aço 'Hasegawa'

Cattleya purpurata var. aço 'Hasegawa'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior, Three Figures: Sake Party, by Hasegawa Mitsunobu

Interior, Three Figures: Sake Party

Hasegawa Mitsunobu · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Norito Hasegawa

Paphiopedilum Norito Hasegawa

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kogō" and "The Imperial Procession to Ōhara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari)

"Kogō" and "The Imperial Procession to Ōhara", from The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fleischerobryum longicolle (Hampe) Loeske

Fleischerobryum longicolle (Hampe) Loeske

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dicranoloma subcylindrothecium Broth.

Dicranoloma subcylindrothecium Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dicranum groenlandicum Brid.

Dicranum groenlandicum Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coriaria japonica A. Gray

Coriaria japonica A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vicia cracca L.

Vicia cracca L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scaevola mollis Hook. & Arn.

Scaevola mollis Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maianthemum dilatatum (Alph. Wood) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.

Maianthemum dilatatum (Alph. Wood) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acer shirasawanum Koidz.

Acer shirasawanum Koidz.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miconia borjensis Wurdack

Miconia borjensis Wurdack

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1974 to 19 Feb 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alyxia stellata (J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.) Roem. & Schult.

Alyxia stellata (J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.) Roem. & Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1932

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 25 matched · 25 examined · 6 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 2026-08-30 11:42 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.