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 “Piper bredemeyeri var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:49 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.
Piper bredemeyeri var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper bredemeyeri var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · s.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1920 to 17 Jan 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lacunosum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Piper arboreum var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1944 to 21 Nov 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper aduncum var. garcia-barrigae Trel. & Yunck.

Piper aduncum var. garcia-barrigae Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper aequale var. hirtinervulum Yunck. in Trel. & Yunck.

Piper aequale var. hirtinervulum Yunck. in Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piper lenticellosum var. scandens Yunck. in Trel. & Yunck.

Piper lenticellosum var. scandens Yunck. in Trel. & Yunck.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1944

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. 207 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 2026-09-03 07:49 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.