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 “Hibiscus byrnesii F.D. Wilson” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:54 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.
Hibiscus byrnesii F.D. Wilson

Hibiscus byrnesii F.D. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus minutibracteolus F.D. Wilson

Hibiscus minutibracteolus F.D. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus menzeliae F.D. Wilson & Byrnes

Hibiscus menzeliae F.D. Wilson & Byrnes

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus symonii F.D. Wilson & Byrnes

Hibiscus symonii F.D. Wilson & Byrnes

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus arnheimensis F.D. Wilson

Hibiscus arnheimensis F.D. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus fijiensis F.D. Wilson

Hibiscus fijiensis F.D. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Nov 1947 to 8 Dec 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabdariffa symonii (F.D. Wilson & Byrnes) McLay & R.L. Barrett

Sabdariffa symonii (F.D. Wilson & Byrnes) McLay & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabdariffa menzeliae (F.D. Wilson & Byrnes) McLay & R.L. Barrett

Sabdariffa menzeliae (F.D. Wilson & Byrnes) McLay & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus mustiae F.D. Wilson

Hibiscus mustiae F.D. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Sabdariffa fijiensis (F.D. Wilson) M.M. Hanes & R.L. Barrett

Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

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. 46788 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 13:54 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.