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 “Thomas Searls” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:03 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Codium carolinianum Searles

Codium carolinianum Searles

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atriplex spinifera J.F. Macbr.

Atriplex spinifera J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atriplex polycarpa (Torr.) S. Watson

Atriplex polycarpa (Torr.) S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Oct 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eremothera boothii subsp. desertorum (Munz) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Eremothera boothii subsp. desertorum (Munz) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Onslowia endophytica Searles in Searles & Leister

Onslowia endophytica Searles in Searles & Leister

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypnea volubilis Searles in C.W. Schneid. & Searles

Hypnea volubilis Searles in C.W. Schneid. & Searles

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. & Frém.) S. Watson

Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. & Frém.) S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gloiocladia blomquistii (Searles) R.E. Norris

Gloiocladia blomquistii (Searles) R.E. Norris

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Codium carolinianum Searles

Codium carolinianum Searles

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dudresnaya puertoricensis Searles & D.L. Ballant.

Dudresnaya puertoricensis Searles & D.L. Ballant.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trematocarpus papenfussii Searles

Trematocarpus papenfussii Searles

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dudresnaya georgiana Searles

Dudresnaya georgiana Searles

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1980

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119776 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 16:03 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.