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 “Dysphinctium notabile var. pseudospeciosum Hansg.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:33 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.
Dysphinctium notabile var. pseudospeciosum Hansg.

Dysphinctium notabile var. pseudospeciosum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium notabile var. pseudospeciosum Hansg.

Dysphinctium notabile var. pseudospeciosum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium tumens var. minus Hansg.

Dysphinctium tumens var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium globosum var. perpusillum Hansg.

Dysphinctium globosum var. perpusillum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium curtum var. exiguum Hansg.

Dysphinctium curtum var. exiguum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium pusillum Hansg.

Dysphinctium pusillum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium speciosum var. pseudospeciosum

Cosmarium speciosum var. pseudospeciosum

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Nov 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium notabile var. ornatum

Cosmarium notabile var. ornatum

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucocystis cellaris var. cavernarum Hansg.

Leucocystis cellaris var. cavernarum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyngbya elegans var. symplociformis Hansg.

Lyngbya elegans var. symplociformis Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacillus subtilis var. caldariorum Hansg.

Bacillus subtilis var. caldariorum Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cladothrix dichotoma var. leptochaetiformis Hansg.

Cladothrix dichotoma var. leptochaetiformis Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1884

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. 225140 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 2026-09-03 20:33 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.