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 “Acleris disputabilis” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Acleris disputabilis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1902

Acer disputabilis Hollick
Artist not stated in the record

Piper disputabilis Hollick
Artist not stated in the record

Megachile disputabilis
Artist not stated in the record

Acleris elegans
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1953

Acleris elegans
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1968

Acleris dentata
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

Acleris tigricolor
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1976

Acleris tigricolor
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1964

Acleris aurichalcana
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1963

Acleris pulchella
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1978

Acleris delicatana
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1984
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. 46 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 2026-09-02 10:23 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.