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 “Themeda gigantea var. intermedia Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.” — 22 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:31 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.
Themeda gigantea var. intermedia Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Themeda gigantea var. intermedia Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themeda gigantea var. amboinensis Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Themeda gigantea var. amboinensis Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themeda gigantea var. longispatha Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Themeda gigantea var. longispatha Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themeda helferi Hack. in A. DC.

Themeda helferi Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rottboellia striata var. khasiana Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Rottboellia striata var. khasiana Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pollinia vagans var. dubia Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Pollinia vagans var. dubia Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rottboellia ophiuroides var. commutata Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Rottboellia ophiuroides var. commutata Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rottboellia striata var. pubescens Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Rottboellia striata var. pubescens Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elionurus tripsacoides var. brevidentatus Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Elionurus tripsacoides var. brevidentatus Hack. in A. DC. & C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus var. bicarinatus Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus var. bicarinatus Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon incanus var. subtilior Hack. in A. DC.

Andropogon incanus var. subtilior Hack. in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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 2026-09-10 12:31 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.