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 “Conferva pachyderma N.Wille” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:37 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.
Conferva pachyderma N.Wille

Conferva pachyderma N.Wille

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microspora pachyderma (N.Wille) Lagerh.

Microspora pachyderma (N.Wille) Lagerh.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microspora pachyderma (N.Wille) Lagerh.

Microspora pachyderma (N.Wille) Lagerh.

Artist not stated in the record · -- Jun ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva bombycina var. major N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva bombycina var. major N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva wittrockii N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva wittrockii N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva floccosa var. novae-semliae N.Wille

Conferva floccosa var. novae-semliae N.Wille

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva utriculosa var. ceylanica N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva utriculosa var. ceylanica N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva wittrockii N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva wittrockii N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva bombycina var. major N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva bombycina var. major N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva utriculosa var. ceylanica N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Conferva utriculosa var. ceylanica N.Wille in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva minor

Conferva minor

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conferva capillaris

Conferva capillaris

Artist not stated in the record

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. 411 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 20:37 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.