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 “Hierochloe utriculata var. juncifolia Hack.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 14:07 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.
Hierochloe utriculata var. juncifolia Hack.

Hierochloe utriculata var. juncifolia Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1901 to 25 Mar 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hierochloe teretifolia Steud. ex Lechler, nom. nud.

Hierochloe teretifolia Steud. ex Lechler, nom. nud.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthoxanthum quebrada (Connor & Renvoize) N. Villalobos & Finot

Anthoxanthum quebrada (Connor & Renvoize) N. Villalobos & Finot

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hierochloe alpina var. intermedia Hack.

Hierochloe alpina var. intermedia Hack.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hierochloe fraseri var. recurvata Hack.

Hierochloe fraseri var. recurvata Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hierochloe pusilla Hack. in Dusén

Hierochloe pusilla Hack. in Dusén

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthoxanthum pusillum (Hack. ex Dusén) Veldkamp

Anthoxanthum pusillum (Hack. ex Dusén) Veldkamp

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthoxanthum juncifolium (Hack.) Veldkamp

Anthoxanthum juncifolium (Hack.) Veldkamp

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex utriculata Boott

Carex utriculata Boott

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthoxanthum pusillum (Hack. ex Dusén) Veldkamp

Anthoxanthum pusillum (Hack. ex Dusén) Veldkamp

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa secunda subsp. juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng var. juncifolia

Poa secunda subsp. juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng var. juncifolia

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa secunda subsp. juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng var. juncifolia

Poa secunda subsp. juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng var. juncifolia

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1903

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. 235432 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 2026-09-10 14:07 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.