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 “Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.” — 26 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:41 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.
Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Heliotropium remotiflorum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliotropium arenicola Rech. f. & Riedl

Heliotropium arenicola Rech. f. & Riedl

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paracaryum serpentinicum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Paracaryum serpentinicum Rech. f. & Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferula koelzii Rech. f. & Riedl in Koeie & Rech. f.

Ferula koelzii Rech. f. & Riedl in Koeie & Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rindera neubaueri (Rech. f.) Rech. f. & Riedl

Rindera neubaueri (Rech. f.) Rech. f. & Riedl

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prangos akymatodes Rech. f. & Riedl in Koeie & Rech. f.

Prangos akymatodes Rech. f. & Riedl in Koeie & Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myosotis koelzii Riedl in Rech. f.

Myosotis koelzii Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myosotis albicans Riedl in Rech. f.

Myosotis albicans Riedl in Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferula trachyphylla Rech. f. & Riedl

Ferula trachyphylla Rech. f. & Riedl

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semenovia radiata (Rech. f. & Riedl) Alava

Semenovia radiata (Rech. f. & Riedl) Alava

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1937

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. 26 matched · 26 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 19:41 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.