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 “Semenovia subscaposa (Rech. f.) Alava” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 23:37 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.
Semenovia subscaposa (Rech. f.) Alava

Semenovia subscaposa (Rech. f.) Alava

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zosima subscaposa Rech. f.

Zosima subscaposa Rech. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1948 to 27 Jul 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semenovia radiata (Rech. f. & Riedl) Alava

Semenovia radiata (Rech. f. & Riedl) Alava

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hoya chlorantha Rech.

Hoya chlorantha Rech.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gomphrena subscaposa (Hook. f.) T. Ortuño & Borsch

Gomphrena subscaposa (Hook. f.) T. Ortuño & Borsch

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1905 to 15 Aug 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928 to Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Codonopsis subscaposa Kom.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928 to Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semenovia transiliensis Regel & Herder

Semenovia transiliensis Regel & Herder

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bistorta subscaposa (Diels) Petrov

Bistorta subscaposa (Diels) Petrov

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1984 to 12 Jul 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tradescantia subscaposa C.B. Clarke

Tradescantia subscaposa C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Semenovia transiliensis Regel & Herder

Semenovia transiliensis Regel & Herder

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1963

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. 653318 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 23:37 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.