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 “Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 23:14 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.

Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 1924 to 22 Nov 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 1992 to 20 Nov 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1993 to 7 Dec 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Oct 1991 to 25 Oct 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orthosiphon hildebrandtii Vatke

Orthosiphon hildebrandtii Vatke

Artist not stated in the record · May 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia emirnensis Baker

Euphorbia emirnensis Baker

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia emirnensis Baker

Euphorbia emirnensis Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agrostis emirnensis (Baker) Bosser

Agrostis emirnensis (Baker) Bosser

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Feb 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zehneria emirnensis (Baker) Keraudren

Zehneria emirnensis (Baker) Keraudren

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nastus emirnensis (Baker) A. Camus

Nastus emirnensis (Baker) A. Camus

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agrostis emirnensis (Baker) Bosser

Agrostis emirnensis (Baker) Bosser

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1928 to 11 Nov 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zehneria emirnensis (Baker) Keraudren

Zehneria emirnensis (Baker) Keraudren

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1985

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. 49226 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 23:14 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.