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 “Trionyx virginiana Clark, 1895” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:30 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.
Trionyx virginiana Clark, 1895

Trionyx virginiana Clark, 1895

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunus virginiana L.

Prunus virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1895 to 15 Jul 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Didelphis virginiana virginiana

Didelphis virginiana virginiana

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth. subsp. virginiana

Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth. subsp. virginiana

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diospyros virginiana L.

Diospyros virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1895 to 30 Jun 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hamamelis virginiana L.

Hamamelis virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1895 to 11 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diodia virginiana L.

Diodia virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1895 to 19 Jul 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juniperus virginiana L.

Juniperus virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1895 to 9 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juniperus virginiana L.

Juniperus virginiana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1895 to 23 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medeola virginiana (L.) Desf.

Medeola virginiana (L.) Desf.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1895 to 7 Sep 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch

Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1895 to 4 Jul 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpinus caroliniana subsp. virginiana (Marshall) Furlow

Carpinus caroliniana subsp. virginiana (Marshall) Furlow

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1895 to 8 Aug 1895

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. 133791 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 2026-09-04 02:30 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.