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 “Psorospermum discolor Baker” — 42 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:22 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.
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Psorospermum discolor Baker

Psorospermum discolor Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Maconochie (1777–1861) of Meadowbank, by Sir Henry Raeburn

Alexander Maconochie (1777–1861) of Meadowbank

Sir Henry Raeburn

Public domainThe Met
Psorospermum fanerana Baker

Psorospermum fanerana Baker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum malifolium Baker

Psorospermum malifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum ferrovestitum Baker

Psorospermum ferrovestitum Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum androsaemifolium Baker

Psorospermum androsaemifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum trichophyllum Baker

Psorospermum trichophyllum Baker

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum malifolium Baker

Psorospermum malifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1928 to 22 Nov 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum ferrovestitum Baker

Psorospermum ferrovestitum Baker

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Psorospermum cerasifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Psorospermum androsaemifolium Baker

Psorospermum androsaemifolium Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 1928 to 18 Dec 1928

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 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. 52647 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 12:22 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.