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. 15 shown for “Kawamura Bunpō” — 24 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:05 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.
Guide to Chinese Painting, Second Series (Kanga shinan nihen), by Kawamura Bunpō

Guide to Chinese Painting, Second Series (Kanga shinan nihen)

Kawamura Bunpō · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia pilifera P. Beauv.

Grimmia pilifera P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu) 文鳳画譜, First Series, by Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳

Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu) 文鳳画譜, First Series

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳 · 1807, early Winter (Bunka 4)

Public domainThe Met
Fissidens mayebarae Sakurai

Fissidens mayebarae Sakurai

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu) 金波園画譜, by Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳

Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu) 金波園画譜

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳 · 1820, Midsummer (Bunsei 3)

Public domainThe Met
Hyophila stenophylla Cardot

Hyophila stenophylla Cardot

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu) 金波園画譜, by Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳

Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu) 金波園画譜

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳 · 1820, Midsummer (Bunsei 3)

Public domainThe Met
Hyophila propagulifera Broth.

Hyophila propagulifera Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu), by Kawamura Bunpō

Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu)

Kawamura Bunpō · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Ditrichum macrorhynchium Broth.

Ditrichum macrorhynchium Broth.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nangaku-Bunpō Highway Pictures (Nangaku Bunpō kaidō sōga) 南岳文鳳街道雙畫, by Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳

Nangaku-Bunpō Highway Pictures (Nangaku Bunpō kaidō sōga) 南岳文鳳街道雙畫

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳 · 1811, Winter (Bunka 8)

Public domainThe Met
Ditrichum mayebarae (Sakurai) Matsui & Iwats.

Ditrichum mayebarae (Sakurai) Matsui & Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ditrichum mayebarae (Sakurai) Matsui & Iwats.

Ditrichum mayebarae (Sakurai) Matsui & Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraxinus longicuspis Siebold & Zucc.

Fraxinus longicuspis Siebold & Zucc.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hosta longipes (Franch. & Sav.) Matsum.

Hosta longipes (Franch. & Sav.) Matsum.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1927

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18 matched · 18 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:05 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.