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. 14 shown for “Norman Macleod” — 43 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:30 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.
Good Words for 1862, by Norman Macleod

Good Words for 1862

Norman Macleod · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Poa interior Rydb.

Poa interior Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field, by Robert Peake the Elder

Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field

Robert Peake the Elder · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon albidus Nutt.

Penstemon albidus Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus canadensis J. Gay ex Laharpe

Juncus canadensis J. Gay ex Laharpe

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/8/30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calamagrostis neglecta subsp. inexpansa (A. Gray) Tzvelev

Calamagrostis neglecta subsp. inexpansa (A. Gray) Tzvelev

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh.

Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa palustris L.

Poa palustris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa interior Rydb.

Poa interior Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex adusta Boott

Carex adusta Boott

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calamagrostis montanensis Scribn. ex Vasey

Calamagrostis montanensis Scribn. ex Vasey

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodringina kelleri Macleod, 1993

Woodringina kelleri Macleod, 1993

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloris sp.

Chloris sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1911 to Feb 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloris pilosa Schumach.

Chloris pilosa Schumach.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1910

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10013 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 06:30 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.