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 “Calothrix agardhii P. Crouan & H. Crouan” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:26 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.
Calothrix agardhii P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Calothrix agardhii P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix fusco-violacea P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Calothrix fusco-violacea P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix conferta P. Crouan & H. Crouan in Maze & Schramm

Calothrix conferta P. Crouan & H. Crouan in Maze & Schramm

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amphithrix sargassii P. Crouan & H. Crouan in Schramm & Maze

Amphithrix sargassii P. Crouan & H. Crouan in Schramm & Maze

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizosiphon trochicola P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Schizosiphon trochicola P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dasyactis saccorhizae P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Dasyactis saccorhizae P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastigonema paludosum P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Mastigonema paludosum P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Gracilaria crassissima (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) P. Crouan & H. Crouan

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1985

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 313 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 2026-09-02 02:26 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.