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 “Oscillatoria facilis Skuja in H.T. Shacklette et al.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:32 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.
Oscillatoria facilis Skuja in H.T. Shacklette et al.

Oscillatoria facilis Skuja in H.T. Shacklette et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudanabaena granulifera Skuja in H.T. Shacklette et al.

Pseudanabaena granulifera Skuja in H.T. Shacklette et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1967

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
Oscillatoria proteus Skuja

Oscillatoria proteus Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria perornata f. attenuata Skuja

Oscillatoria perornata f. attenuata Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria perornata Skuja

Oscillatoria perornata Skuja

Artist not stated in the record · 17 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
Kumanoa procarpa (Skuja) Entwisle et al.

Kumanoa procarpa (Skuja) Entwisle et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virescentia vogesiaca (F. G. Schultz ex Skuja) Necchi et al.

Virescentia vogesiaca (F. G. Schultz ex Skuja) Necchi et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria maxima var. stizenbergeri Näg. in J.B. Jack et al.

Oscillatoria maxima var. stizenbergeri Näg. in J.B. Jack et al.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oscillatoria princeps f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Oscillatoria princeps f. purpurea Collins in Collins et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Batrachospermum basilare Flint & Skuja in Flint

Batrachospermum basilare Flint & Skuja in Flint

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1960

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. 7462646 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 18:32 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.