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 “Pilea crateriforma F.P. Metcalf” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 10:37 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.
Pilea crateriforma F.P. Metcalf

Pilea crateriforma F.P. Metcalf

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilea crateriforma F.P. Metcalf

Pilea crateriforma F.P. Metcalf

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilea tsiangiana F.P. Metcalf

Pilea tsiangiana F.P. Metcalf

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adinandra glischroloma var. macrosepala (F.P. Metcalf) Kobuski

Adinandra glischroloma var. macrosepala (F.P. Metcalf) Kobuski

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Liquidambar chingii (F.P. Metcalf) Ickert-Bond & J. Wen

Liquidambar chingii (F.P. Metcalf) Ickert-Bond & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1934 to 11 Sep 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ticanto magnifoliolata (F.P. Metcalf) R. Clark & Gagnon

Ticanto magnifoliolata (F.P. Metcalf) R. Clark & Gagnon

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Premna octonervia Merr. & F.P. Metcalf

Premna octonervia Merr. & F.P. Metcalf

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1932 to Sep 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1937 to 31 Dec 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Camellia cordifolia (Merr. & F.P. Metcalf) Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1934 to 29 Aug 1934

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. 10202 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-07 10:37 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.