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 “Palmogloea macrococca var. nigrescens C. Cramer in Rabenh.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 09:05 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.
Palmogloea macrococca var. nigrescens C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Palmogloea macrococca var. nigrescens C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mesotaenium macrococcum (Kütz.) J.Roy & Bisset

Mesotaenium macrococcum (Kütz.) J.Roy & Bisset

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mesotaenium macrococcum (Kütz.) J.Roy & Bisset

Mesotaenium macrococcum (Kütz.) J.Roy & Bisset

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gloeocystis riparia A. Braun in Rabenh.

Gloeocystis riparia A. Braun in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plectranthus nigrescens var. pilosus L.H. Cramer

Plectranthus nigrescens var. pilosus L.H. Cramer

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palmogloea chlamydospora de Bary in Rabenh.

Palmogloea chlamydospora de Bary in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhynchonema nigrescens Rabenh.

Rhynchonema nigrescens Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scytonema pellucidum C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Scytonema pellucidum C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scytonema pellucidum C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Scytonema pellucidum C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cladophora intricata C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Cladophora intricata C. Cramer in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gloeocapsa nigrescens Näg. in Rabenh.

Gloeocapsa nigrescens Näg. in Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aphanocapsa litoralis var. macrococca Hansg.

Aphanocapsa litoralis var. macrococca Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1889

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. 7466881 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 2026-09-05 09:05 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.