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 “Dracaena surculosa var. capitata Hepper” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dracaena surculosa var. capitata Hepper
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1985

Dracaena surculosa Lindl. var. surculosa
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1962

Dracaena surculosa Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1959

Dracaena surculosa Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1996

Dracaena surculosa Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record

Dracaena surculosa Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record

Borreria macrantha var. glabra Hepper
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1949

Borreria chaetocephala var. minor Hepper
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1840

Dracaena reflexa var. linearifolia Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 2018

Madrepora surculosa
Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842

Paronychia capitata (L.) Lam. var. capitata
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1859

Paronychia capitata (L.) Lam. var. capitata
Artist not stated in the record · May 1892
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. 230519 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 21:34 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.