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 “Linum linearifolium var. minoriflora Nyár.” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:36 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.
Linum linearifolium var. minoriflora Nyár.

Linum linearifolium var. minoriflora Nyár.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linum borzeanum Nyár.

Linum borzeanum Nyár.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linum linearifolium (Lindm.) Juz.

Linum linearifolium (Lindm.) Juz.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alyssum murale var. alpinum Boiss. & Balansa ex Nyar.

Alyssum murale var. alpinum Boiss. & Balansa ex Nyar.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa minor var. vaginoides Nyár.

Poa minor var. vaginoides Nyár.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psoralidium linearifolium var. palodurensis Tharp & F.A. Barkley

Psoralidium linearifolium var. palodurensis Tharp & F.A. Barkley

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Rhododendron linearifolium var. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino

Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paspalum malacophyllum var. linearifolium Hack.

Paspalum malacophyllum var. linearifolium Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panicum ansatum var. linearifolium S. Moore

Panicum ansatum var. linearifolium S. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · -- Dec ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polygonum bistorta var. linearifolium S. Watson in C. King

Polygonum bistorta var. linearifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1862

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. 228700 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 11:36 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.