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 “Chroococcus helveticus var. aurantiofuscescens Hansg.” — 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.
Chroococcus helveticus var. aurantiofuscescens Hansg.

Chroococcus helveticus var. aurantiofuscescens Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus helveticus var. aureo-fuscus Hansg.

Chroococcus helveticus var. aureo-fuscus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus macrococcus var. aquaticus Hansg.

Chroococcus macrococcus var. aquaticus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus varius var. luteolus Hansg.

Chroococcus varius var. luteolus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus turgidus var. glomeratus Hansg.

Chroococcus turgidus var. glomeratus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus minutus var. salinus Hansg.

Chroococcus minutus var. salinus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus fuscoater var. fuscoviolaceus Hansg.

Chroococcus fuscoater var. fuscoviolaceus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus membraninus var. crassior Hansg.

Chroococcus membraninus var. crassior Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus macrococcus var. salinarum Hansg.

Chroococcus macrococcus var. salinarum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus turgidus var. submarinus Hansg.

Chroococcus turgidus var. submarinus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus fuscoviolaceus var. cupreofuscus Hansg.

Chroococcus fuscoviolaceus var. cupreofuscus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chroococcus helveticus Näg.

Chroococcus helveticus Näg.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1847

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. 225168 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.