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. 24 shown for “Heuchera americana L.” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:35 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.
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A South West View of the City of New York, in North America, by Pierre Charles Canot

A South West View of the City of New York, in North America

Pierre Charles Canot · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306), by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle of Vigo Bay, 1702, by Johann Gottlieb Lauffer

Battle of Vigo Bay, 1702

Johann Gottlieb Lauffer · 1702

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar to the Sun Warrior, by Mexico Nahua artist(s)

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turtle Bell

Turtle Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mortar in the form of a feline

Mortar in the form of a feline

Artist not stated in the record · 700–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of John Paul Jones, after medal by Dupré, by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Portrait of John Paul Jones, after medal by Dupré

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell

Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majas on a Balcony, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Majas on a Balcony

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/84

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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1309699 matched · 40 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 2026-09-03 15:35 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.