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 escobariae Fryxell” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:30 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 escobariae Fryxell

Hibiscus escobariae Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1923 to 24 Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus escobariae Fryxell

Hibiscus escobariae Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus peralbus Fryxell

Hibiscus peralbus Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus microchlaenus var. leptocladus (Benth.) Fryxell

Hibiscus microchlaenus var. leptocladus (Benth.) Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus peralbus Fryxell

Hibiscus peralbus Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus wilsonii Fryxell

Hibiscus wilsonii Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus capitalensis Krapov. & Fryxell

Hibiscus capitalensis Krapov. & Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Feb 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell var. tiliaceum

Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell var. tiliaceum

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Talipariti tiliaceum var. pernambucense (Arruda) Fryxell

Talipariti tiliaceum var. pernambucense (Arruda) Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell var. tiliaceum

Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell var. tiliaceum

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus commixtus Fryxell & Krapov.

Hibiscus commixtus Fryxell & Krapov.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hibiscus chapadensis Krapov. & Fryxell

Hibiscus chapadensis Krapov. & Fryxell

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1971

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. 8525 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 2026-09-03 18:30 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.