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 “Leptoboea multiflora (C.B. Clarke) Gamble ex C.B. Clarke” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 23:59 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.
Leptoboea multiflora (C.B. Clarke) Gamble ex C.B. Clarke

Leptoboea multiflora (C.B. Clarke) Gamble ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Cordia evolutior (C.B. Clarke) Gamble

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boea multiflora var. burmanica C.B. Clarke

Boea multiflora var. burmanica C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commelina villosa (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke ex Chodat

Commelina villosa (C.B. Clarke) C.B. Clarke ex Chodat

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulbostylis oligostachys (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) C.B. Clarke

Bulbostylis oligostachys (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 1863 to 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus nudiceps (C.B. Clarke ex Standl.) O'Neill

Cyperus nudiceps (C.B. Clarke ex Standl.) O'Neill

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex spicatopaniculata Boeckeler ex C.B. Clarke

Carex spicatopaniculata Boeckeler ex C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costularia melleri (Baker) C.B. Clarke ex Cherm.

Costularia melleri (Baker) C.B. Clarke ex Cherm.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 452034 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 23:59 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.