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 “Thunbergianthus ruwenzoriensis R.D. Good” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:06 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.
Thunbergianthus ruwenzoriensis R.D. Good

Thunbergianthus ruwenzoriensis R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium principis (Franch.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baccharoides calvoana subsp. ruwenzoriensis (C. Jeffrey) Isawumi et al.

Baccharoides calvoana subsp. ruwenzoriensis (C. Jeffrey) Isawumi et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium prattii (Hemsl.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium prattii (Hemsl.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium variifolium R.D. Good

Cremanthodium variifolium R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dipteropeltis mayumbensis R.D. Good

Dipteropeltis mayumbensis R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dipteropeltis mayumbensis R.D. Good

Dipteropeltis mayumbensis R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium retusum (DC.) R.D. Good

Cremanthodium retusum (DC.) R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cremanthodium atrocapitatum R.D. Good

Cremanthodium atrocapitatum R.D. Good

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1925

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. 13059 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 2026-08-28 05:06 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.