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 “Arthraxon lanceolatus subvar. wallichii Hack. in A. DC.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 04:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arthraxon lanceolatus subvar. wallichii Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon liebmannii subvar. raripilis Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 1886

Andropogon liebmannii subvar. mohrii Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1884

Andropogon sorghum subvar. badius Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus subvar. splendidus Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon liebmannii subvar. genuinus Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon sorghum subsp. sativus subvar. lividus Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon condensatus subvar. latens Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon polyatherus subvar. scabriglumis Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon neesii subvar. paraguayensis Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon schottii subvar. asperiglumis Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Andropogon sorghum subvar. leiostachyus Hack. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
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. 7484681 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 04:25 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.