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 “John Sanders” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

James Monroe, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

James Monroe

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summary of sheriff's auction of enslaved persons Banks, Kitty, Lizzy, and Octavo

Summary of sheriff's auction of enslaved persons Banks, Kitty, Lizzy, and Octavo

Artist not stated in the record · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goeppertia leonia (Sander) Borchs. & S. Suárez

Goeppertia leonia (Sander) Borchs. & S. Suárez

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alpinia sanderae Sander

Alpinia sanderae Sander

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lithospermum caroliniense (J.F. Gmel.) MacMill.

Lithospermum caroliniense (J.F. Gmel.) MacMill.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agastache pallidiflora var. gilensis R. W. Sanders

Agastache pallidiflora var. gilensis R. W. Sanders

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monardella linoides subsp. sierrae Elvin & A.C. Sanders x M. odoratissima subsp. pallida (A. Heller) Epling

Monardella linoides subsp. sierrae Elvin & A.C. Sanders x M. odoratissima subsp. pallida (A. Heller) Epling

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coreopsis atkinsoniana Douglas ex Lindl.

Coreopsis atkinsoniana Douglas ex Lindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lantana camara subsp. aculeata (L.) R. W. Sanders x L. strigocamara R. W. Sanders

Lantana camara subsp. aculeata (L.) R. W. Sanders x L. strigocamara R. W. Sanders

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lantana nivea subsp. mutabilis (Hook.) R. W. Sanders x L. strigocamara R. W. Sanders

Lantana nivea subsp. mutabilis (Hook.) R. W. Sanders x L. strigocamara R. W. Sanders

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lantana camara subsp. aculeata (L.) R. W. Sanders x L. nivea subsp. mutabilis (Hook.) R. W. Sanders

Lantana camara subsp. aculeata (L.) R. W. Sanders x L. nivea subsp. mutabilis (Hook.) R. W. Sanders

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1974

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263233 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 16:29 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.