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 “Salvia benthamiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:23 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.
Salvia benthamiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Salvia benthamiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvia benthamiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Salvia benthamiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvia rivularis Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Salvia rivularis Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ichthyothere cearaensis Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Ichthyothere cearaensis Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ichthyothere suffruticosa Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Ichthyothere suffruticosa Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gomphia fieldingiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Gomphia fieldingiana Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diplusodon incanus Gardner in Gardner & Fielding

Diplusodon incanus Gardner in Gardner & Fielding

Artist not stated in the record · May 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diplusodon incanus Gardner in Gardner & Fielding

Diplusodon incanus Gardner in Gardner & Fielding

Artist not stated in the record · 1837 to 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ichthyothere suffruticosa Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Ichthyothere suffruticosa Gardner in Fielding & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Anemia dentata Gardner ex Field & Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1943

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. 3483 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-08 14:23 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.