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. 17 shown for “Kora” — 37 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 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.
Kora

Kora

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tricalysia cacondensis Hiern

Tricalysia cacondensis Hiern

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Korikaariye

Korikaariye

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium wrightii A. Gray

Vaccinium wrightii A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bala

Bala

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Stephania japonica (Thunb.) Miers

Stephania japonica (Thunb.) Miers

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nyanyeru (riti)

Nyanyeru (riti)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Aconitum karakolicum Rapaics

Aconitum karakolicum Rapaics

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sora Ngoni (Simbingo)

Sora Ngoni (Simbingo)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Setaria viridis (L.) P. Beauv.

Setaria viridis (L.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monachosorum flagellare (Makino) Hayata

Monachosorum flagellare (Makino) Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Machilus japonica Siebold & Zucc.

Machilus japonica Siebold & Zucc.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris cystolepidota (Miq.) C. Chr.

Dryopteris cystolepidota (Miq.) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dryopteris bissetiana

Dryopteris bissetiana

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Asplenium oligophiebium Baker

Asplenium oligophiebium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Asplenium normale D. Don

Asplenium normale D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1953

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26 matched · 26 examined · 7 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 05:32 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.