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 “Anabaena australica var. constricta Playfair” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Anabaena australica var. constricta Playfair

Anabaena australica var. constricta Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1916 to 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anabaena australica Playfair

Anabaena australica Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1916 to 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria formosa var. australica Playfair

Oscillatoria formosa var. australica Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anabaena oscillarioides var. crassa Playfair

Anabaena oscillarioides var. crassa Playfair

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria simplicissima var. constricta Playfair

Oscillatoria simplicissima var. constricta Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1916 to 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria constricta Szafer

Oscillatoria constricta Szafer

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrospermum stagnale var. australe Playfair

Cylindrospermum stagnale var. australe Playfair

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria splendida var. amylacea Playfair

Oscillatoria splendida var. amylacea Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1912 to 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium corium var. constrictum Playfair

Phormidium corium var. constrictum Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium corium var. acuminatum Playfair

Phormidium corium var. acuminatum Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria tenuis var. chlorina Playfair

Oscillatoria tenuis var. chlorina Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1912 to 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria simplicissima var. granulata Playfair

Oscillatoria simplicissima var. granulata Playfair

Artist not stated in the record · 1916 to 1918

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 227216 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 17:49 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.