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 “Bryum botteri C. Mohr” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bryum botteri C. Mohr
Artist not stated in the record

Crataegus pubescens var. botteri Eggl.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1856
Pennisetum distachyum
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1857

Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1857

Clematis grossa Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1856

Laportea canadensis (L.) Wedd.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1857

Ficus padifolia Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1857

Rhynchospora tenuis Link
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1857

Cyperus aggregatus (Willd.) Endl.
Artist not stated in the record · 1857

Carex polystachya Sw. ex Wahlenb.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1857

Chamissoa altissima (Jacq.) Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1857

Dahlia coccinea Cav.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1857
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. 995753 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 2026-09-01 13:31 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.