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. 16 shown for “Urakami Shunkin (ASA)” — 45 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:12 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.
Wintry Landscape with Trees, by Urakami Shunkin (ASA)

Wintry Landscape with Trees

Urakami Shunkin (ASA) · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Jynx torquilla torquilla

Jynx torquilla torquilla

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jan 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Early Summer Landsape, by Urakami Shunkin

Early Summer Landsape

Urakami Shunkin · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Asa Gray, by John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891

Asa Gray

John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Letter to Shunkin, by Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō

Letter to Shunkin

Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Asa Gray, by Unidentified Artist

Asa Gray

Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Verdant Mountains Hoping for Snow, by Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō

In Verdant Mountains Hoping for Snow

Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō · ca. 1794

Public domainThe Met
Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On a Rustic Bridge, Carrying a Zither, by Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō 浦上玉堂

On a Rustic Bridge, Carrying a Zither

Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō 浦上玉堂 · 1814

Public domainThe Met
Songs of the Hutchinson Family, by G. and W. Endicott Lithography, active c. 1841 - c. 1849

Songs of the Hutchinson Family

G. and W. Endicott Lithography, active c. 1841 - c. 1849 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aspidosperma cruentum Woodson

Aspidosperma cruentum Woodson

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penstemon virgatus subsp. asa-grayi Crosswh.

Penstemon virgatus subsp. asa-grayi Crosswh.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aspidosperma cruentum Woodson

Aspidosperma cruentum Woodson

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Abrodictyum asae-grayi (Bosch) Ebihara & K. Iwats.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1965

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 629 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:12 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.