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 “Maxime Du Camp” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:14 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Grand Temple de Denderah, by Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894

Grand Temple de Denderah

Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Temple de Denderah, by Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894

Grand Temple de Denderah

Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Temple de Denderah, by Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894

Grand Temple de Denderah

Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bois de Daltiers et de Palmiers Doums, by Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894

Bois de Daltiers et de Palmiers Doums

Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Temple de Denderah, by Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894

Grand Temple de Denderah

Maxime Du Camp, French, born Paris, France 1822-died Baden-Baden, Germany 1894 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crepidiastrum sonchifolium (Maxim.) Pak & Kawano

Crepidiastrum sonchifolium (Maxim.) Pak & Kawano

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhododendron przewalskii Maxim.

Rhododendron przewalskii Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim.

Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphenomeris retusa (Cav.) Maxim.

Sphenomeris retusa (Cav.) Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosla chinensis Maxim.

Mosla chinensis Maxim.

Artist not stated in the record · 1883 to 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetoseris roborowskii (Maxim.) C. Shih

Chaetoseris roborowskii (Maxim.) C. Shih

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedicularis tenuisecta Franch. ex Maxim.

Pedicularis tenuisecta Franch. ex Maxim.

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119824 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 22:14 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.