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 “Protococcus marinus var. virens Hansg.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Protococcus marinus var. virens Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1889

Protococcus marinus var. foslieanus Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · 1891

Protococcus marinus f. foslieana Hansg. in Foslie
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1889

Protococcus botryoides var. nidulans Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1887

Protococcus viridis var. insignis Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1886

Protococcus variabilis Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1886
Ascococcus marinus Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885
Protococcus viridis var. pulcher
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1901
Leucocystis cellaris var. cavernarum Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1888

Lyngbya elegans var. symplociformis Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1883
Bacillus subtilis var. caldariorum Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1884
Cladothrix dichotoma var. leptochaetiformis Hansg.
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1884
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. 229559 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 08:57 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.