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. 15 shown for “Sea Dayaks (Iban)” — 44 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:03 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.
Ensuranai, by Sea Dayaks (Iban)

Ensuranai

Sea Dayaks (Iban) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chromolaena beckii R.M. King & H. Rob.

Chromolaena beckii R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial cloth

Ceremonial cloth

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Artocarpus melinoxylus Gagnep.

Artocarpus melinoxylus Gagnep.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual Textile (Pua Sungkit)

Ritual Textile (Pua Sungkit)

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pisum sativum L.

Pisum sativum L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Less.) DC.

Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Less.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amydrium medium (Zoll. & Moritzi) Nicolson

Amydrium medium (Zoll. & Moritzi) Nicolson

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchospora tenuis Link

Rhynchospora tenuis Link

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/2/89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homalomena humilis (Jack) Hook. f.

Homalomena humilis (Jack) Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oxyspora ovata C.Hansen

Oxyspora ovata C.Hansen

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Procambarus blandingii acutus

Procambarus blandingii acutus

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polygala incarnata L.

Polygala incarnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1973 to 23 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Croton glandulosus L.

Croton glandulosus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Procambarus blandingii acutus

Procambarus blandingii acutus

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1962

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 361193 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 2026-09-05 22:03 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.