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. 14 shown for “J. Cunningham” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:35 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.
Tablecover, by J. Cunningham

Tablecover

J. Cunningham · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Gentianella hirculus (Griseb.) Fabris

Gentianella hirculus (Griseb.) Fabris

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eleven bound prints of hunts, by Francesco Valesio

Eleven bound prints of hunts

Francesco Valesio · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Monnina crassifolia (Bonpl.) Kunth

Monnina crassifolia (Bonpl.) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana microphylla Kunth

Valeriana microphylla Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phyllactis bracteata (Benth.) Wedd.

Phyllactis bracteata (Benth.) Wedd.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gentianella hyssopifolia (Kunth) Fabris

Gentianella hyssopifolia (Kunth) Fabris

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halenia weddelliana Gilg

Halenia weddelliana Gilg

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jamesonia sp.

Jamesonia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senecio tephrosioides Turcz.

Senecio tephrosioides Turcz.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clinopodium nubigenum (Kunth) Kuntze

Clinopodium nubigenum (Kunth) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Castilleja fissifolia L. f.

Castilleja fissifolia L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola pygmaea Juss. ex Poir.

Viola pygmaea Juss. ex Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ranunculus peruvianus Pers.

Ranunculus peruvianus Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1995

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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1184885 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 09:35 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.