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 variabilis Kütz.” — 40 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Anabaena variabilis Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 2009

Anabaena variabilis Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1839

Anabaena variabilis f. mareotica Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1901

Anabaena botulus Margalef
Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1950

Anabaena ghosei Welsh
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1961

Sphaerozyga seriata Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record

Sphaerozyga elastica C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record

Glaucocystis nostochinearum var. minor Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1890

Nostoc variegatum Moore in Harv.
Artist not stated in the record · 1836 and 1838

Anabaena aeruginosa N.L. Gardner
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1915

Anabaena naviculoides F.E. Fritsch
Artist not stated in the record

Anabaena incognita Welsh
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1961
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. 18977 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 20:11 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.