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 peronides Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.” — 38 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:22 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 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
Cladostroma setschwanense Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Cladostroma setschwanense Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratium handelii Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Ceratium handelii Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium ktenophorum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Cosmarium ktenophorum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium pedinochondrum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Cosmarium pedinochondrum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium recedens Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Cosmarium recedens Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium protomphalum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Cosmarium protomphalum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix aequalis Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Calothrix aequalis Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gloeothece tophacea Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Gloeothece tophacea Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nostoc bicalyptratum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Nostoc bicalyptratum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetomnion pyriferum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Chaetomnion pyriferum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phormidium thermophilum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Phormidium thermophilum Skuja in Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1914

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. 38 matched · 38 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 18:22 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.