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 “T. C. Wilson” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:48 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.
The Dissecting Room, by T. C. Wilson

The Dissecting Room

T. C. Wilson · ca. 1838

Public domainThe Met
Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus

Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, by Richard Wilson

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery

Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Public domainThe Met
Inga punctata Willd.

Inga punctata Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Apr 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Public domainThe Met
Tristaniopsis whiteana (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Tristaniopsis whiteana (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Lophostemon confertus (R. Br.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fissidens repandus Wilson

Fissidens repandus Wilson

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tristaniopsis ferruginea (C.T. White) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Tristaniopsis ferruginea (C.T. White) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tristaniopsis merguensis (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Tristaniopsis merguensis (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lophostemon suaveolens (Sol. ex Gaertn.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Lophostemon suaveolens (Sol. ex Gaertn.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lophostemon lactifluus (F. Muell.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Lophostemon lactifluus (F. Muell.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tristaniopsis exiliflora (F. Muell.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Tristaniopsis exiliflora (F. Muell.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tristaniopsis whiteana (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Tristaniopsis whiteana (Griff.) P.G. Wilson & J. T. Waterh.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Nov 1968

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. 5491 matched · 24 examined · 21 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. 1347406 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 16:48 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.