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 “Rhinanthus goniotrichus (Borbás ex Sterneck) Borbás” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:27 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.
Rhinanthus goniotrichus (Borbás ex Sterneck) Borbás

Rhinanthus goniotrichus (Borbás ex Sterneck) Borbás

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lunaria pachyrrhiza Borbás

Lunaria pachyrrhiza Borbás

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinanthus freynii (A. Kern. ex Sterneck) Fiori

Rhinanthus freynii (A. Kern. ex Sterneck) Fiori

Artist not stated in the record · May 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinanthus freynii (A. Kern. ex Sterneck) Fiori

Rhinanthus freynii (A. Kern. ex Sterneck) Fiori

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilia furedensis Herm. ex Borbás

Tilia furedensis Herm. ex Borbás

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1893 to 20 Aug 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhabdodendron amazonicum (Spruce ex Benth.) Huber

Rhabdodendron amazonicum (Spruce ex Benth.) Huber

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhinanthus patulus (Sterneck) Schinz & Thell.

Rhinanthus patulus (Sterneck) Schinz & Thell.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus erectus var. borbasii Hack. ex Borbás

Bromus erectus var. borbasii Hack. ex Borbás

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhabdodendron amazonicum (Spruce ex Benth.) Huber

Rhabdodendron amazonicum (Spruce ex Benth.) Huber

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mabea angustifolia Spruce ex Benth.

Mabea angustifolia Spruce ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mabea angustifolia Spruce ex Benth.

Mabea angustifolia Spruce ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia seguieriana subsp. niciciana (Borbás ex Novák) Rech. f.

Euphorbia seguieriana subsp. niciciana (Borbás ex Novák) Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 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. 375811 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 08:27 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.