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 “Pyrenacantha macrocarpa (A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Byng & Utteridge” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:15 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.
Pyrenacantha macrocarpa (A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Byng & Utteridge

Pyrenacantha macrocarpa (A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Byng & Utteridge

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Pyrenacantha lobata (Pierre) Byng & Utteridge nom. inval.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyrenacantha thomsoniana (Baill.) Byng & Utteridge

Pyrenacantha thomsoniana (Baill.) Byng & Utteridge

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calvoa monticola A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Calvoa monticola A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diospyros liberiensis A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Diospyros liberiensis A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Geophila cordiformis A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Geophila cordiformis A. Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mimusops heckelii (A. Chev.) Hutch. & Dalziel

Mimusops heckelii (A. Chev.) Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Feb 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchosia preussii Taub. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Rhynchosia preussii Taub. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchosia preussii Taub. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Rhynchosia preussii Taub. ex Hutch. & Dalziel

Artist not stated in the record

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. 3729 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-02 05:15 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.