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. 21 shown for “Joseph Morin” — 49 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 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.
Marriage spruce gum box in book form, by Joseph Morin

Marriage spruce gum box in book form

Joseph Morin · February 27, 1903

Public domainThe Met
Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.

Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Goddess of Discord in the Garden of the Hesperides, from "lllustrated London News", by Henry Linton

The Goddess of Discord in the Garden of the Hesperides, from "lllustrated London News"

Henry Linton · January 31, 1857

Public domainThe Met
Cirsium muticum Michx.

Cirsium muticum Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Philippe de Champaigne

The Annunciation

Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1644

Public domainThe Met
Drosera intermedia Hayne

Drosera intermedia Hayne

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iris and Sparrow, by Utagawa Hiroshige

Iris and Sparrow

Utagawa Hiroshige · ca. 1832

Public domainThe Met
Cirsium muticum Michx.

Cirsium muticum Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Equisetum fluviatile L.

Equisetum fluviatile L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breastplate, by Giovan Paolo Negroli

Breastplate

Giovan Paolo Negroli · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Isoetes echinospora Durieu

Isoetes echinospora Durieu

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Sep 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub

Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bottle in the shape of a fish

Glass bottle in the shape of a fish

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Campanula griffinii Morin

Campanula griffinii Morin

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limnanthes alba subsp. parishii (Jeps.) Morin

Limnanthes alba subsp. parishii (Jeps.) Morin

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 84516 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 23:21 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.