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. 13 shown for “Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther” — 43 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:31 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.
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637), by Anthony van Dyck

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

Public domainThe Met
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /8/20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Tillandsia floridana (L.B. Sm.) H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia guatemalensis L.B. Sm.

Tillandsia guatemalensis L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia truncata var. major H. Luther

Tillandsia truncata var. major H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia fasciculata var. floridana L.B. Sm.

Tillandsia fasciculata var. floridana L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia truncata L.B. Sm.

Tillandsia truncata L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tillandsia wurdackii L.B. Sm.

Tillandsia wurdackii L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Oct 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pepinia neeana L.B. Sm. ex H. Luther

Pepinia neeana L.B. Sm. ex H. Luther

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1987

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 964195 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 13:31 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.