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 “Pteronia intermedia Hutch. & E. Phillips” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 06:07 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.
Pteronia intermedia Hutch. & E. Phillips

Pteronia intermedia Hutch. & E. Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteronia bolusii E. Phillips

Pteronia bolusii E. Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteronia oblanceolata E. Phillips

Pteronia oblanceolata E. Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteronia stricta Aiton

Pteronia stricta Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tarchonanthus trilobus var. galpinii (Hutch. & E. Phillips) Paiva

Tarchonanthus trilobus var. galpinii (Hutch. & E. Phillips) Paiva

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sesbania macrantha Welw. ex E. Phillips & Hutch.

Sesbania macrantha Welw. ex E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Nov 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucadendron discolor E. Phillips & Hutch.

Leucadendron discolor E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brachylaena discolor subsp. transvaalensis (Hutch. ex E. Phillips & Schweick.) Paiva

Brachylaena discolor subsp. transvaalensis (Hutch. ex E. Phillips & Schweick.) Paiva

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucadendron coriaceum E. Phillips & Hutch.

Leucadendron coriaceum E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mimetes hottentoticus E. Phillips & Hutch.

Mimetes hottentoticus E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucadendron galpinii E. Phillips & Hutch.

Leucadendron galpinii E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucadendron dubium E. Phillips & Hutch.

Leucadendron dubium E. Phillips & Hutch.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1896

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. 42 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 2026-09-09 06:07 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.