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 “Juncus thomasii subsp. palensis Maly” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 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.
Juncus thomasii subsp. palensis Maly

Juncus thomasii subsp. palensis Maly

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus thomasii Ten.

Juncus thomasii Ten.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus thomasii Ten.

Juncus thomasii Ten.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii (Duby) Freitag

Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii (Duby) Freitag

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii (Duby) Freitag

Piptatherum miliaceum subsp. thomasii (Duby) Freitag

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus atratus Krock.

Juncus atratus Krock.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1909 to 14 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus trifidus L.

Juncus trifidus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scorzoneroides montana subsp. illyrica (K. Malý) Zidorn

Scorzoneroides montana subsp. illyrica (K. Malý) Zidorn

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus acutus subsp. leopoldii (Parl.) Snogerup

Juncus acutus subsp. leopoldii (Parl.) Snogerup

Artist not stated in the record · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · May 1904 to Jun 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Juncus decipiens subsp. medianus (Ridl.) L.A.S. Johnson & K.L. Wilson

Artist not stated in the record

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. 128178 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 2026-09-05 08:39 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.