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. 11 shown for “Aristida adscensionis var. argentina Hack. in Stuck.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 06:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Aristida adscensionis var. argentina Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Dec 1901

Aristida adscensionis var. scabriflora Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 1898

Aristida adscensionis var. breviseta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1897

Aristida adscensionis var. densiflora Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1909

Aristida adscensionis var. laevis Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 1901

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 1887

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1908 to 20 Sep 1908

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1889 to 15 Mar 1889

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1930

Aristida adscensionis var. modesta Hack. in Stuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1894
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. 7462290 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 2026-09-10 06:06 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.