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 “Un Rocher dans les Communaux de Rix (Ain)” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 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.
Un Rocher dans les Communaux de Rix (Ain)

Un Rocher dans les Communaux de Rix (Ain)

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Besleria insolita C.V. Morton

Besleria insolita C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saxifraga tridactylites L.

Saxifraga tridactylites L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fucus ceranoides

Fucus ceranoides

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Feb 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene paradoxa L.

Silene paradoxa L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails d’une Glaciere precede d’un Temple Egyptien et surmontée d’un Kiosque le tout construit dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Archte. des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une Glaciere precede d’un Temple Egyptien et surmontée d’un Kiosque le tout construit dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Archte. des Monnoies de France

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Détails d’une Glaciere precedée d’un Temple Egyptien et surmontée d’un Kiosque le tout construit dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Archte. des Monnoies de France, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une Glaciere precedée d’un Temple Egyptien et surmontée d’un Kiosque le tout construit dans le Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole par Dubois ainé Architecte, Eleve et 1er neveu du Feu Antoine Archte. des Monnoies de France

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acrosiphonia spinescens

Acrosiphonia spinescens

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cladophora rupestris (Roth) Kütz.

Cladophora rupestris (Roth) Kütz.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scleria hirtella Sw.

Scleria hirtella Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand, by Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754

Livre d'architecture, contenant les principes généraux de cet art, et les plans, élévations et profils de quelques-uns des bâtimens faits en France et dans les pays étrangers, par le sieur Boffrand

Germain Boffrand, French, 1667–1754 · 1745

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. 639538 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.