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 “Phormidium valderianum Gomont” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Phormidium valderianum Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 2009

Phormidium subsalsum Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 1841

Phormidium alaskense Gomont ex Frémy
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Phormidium corium Gomont ex Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2009
Phormidium submembranaceum Kütz. ex Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1975

Phormidium cebennense Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1896

Phormidium penicillatum Gomont in Jadin
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1890

Phormidium subuliforme Gomont
Artist not stated in the record

Phormidium ectocarpii Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1896

Phormidium setchellianum Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1890

Phormidium moniliforme Gomont in Bornet
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1827

Phormidium crouanii Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1867
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. 12762 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 2026-09-02 02:26 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.