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 “Microcoleus sociatus var. abiscoensis Skuja” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:32 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.
Microcoleus sociatus var. abiscoensis Skuja

Microcoleus sociatus var. abiscoensis Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Microcoleus sociatus var. minor N.L. Gardner

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria sandbergii Skuja

Oscillatoria sandbergii Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium abronema Skuja

Phormidium abronema Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria peronides Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Oscillatoria peronides Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Synechococcus ambiguus Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Synechococcus ambiguus Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Batrachospermum chalybaeum var. hawaiiense Skuja

Batrachospermum chalybaeum var. hawaiiense Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staurastrum botrophilum var. sinense Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Staurastrum botrophilum var. sinense Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyngbya nordgaardii var. aquae-dulcis Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Lyngbya nordgaardii var. aquae-dulcis Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenedesmus longispinus var. capricornus Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Scenedesmus longispinus var. capricornus Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1917

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. 233115 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 2026-09-10 16:32 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.