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 “Phanera pulla (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 20:43 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.
Phanera pulla (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera pulla (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera pulla (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera pulla (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera concreta (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera concreta (Craib) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera cardinalis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1974 or 10 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera delavayi (Franch.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera delavayi (Franch.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera delavayi (Franch.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera delavayi (Franch.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera penicilliloba (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera penicilliloba (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera penicilliloba (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Phanera penicilliloba (Pierre ex Gagnep.) Sinou & Bruneau

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera comosa (Craib) Bandyop. & Ghoshal

Phanera comosa (Craib) Bandyop. & Ghoshal

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera similis (Craib) de Wit

Phanera similis (Craib) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 2013

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. 1796 matched · 40 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 2026-09-05 20:43 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.