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 “Rhexia floridana Nash” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rhexia floridana Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1894 to 15 Jul 1894

Utricularia floridana Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1894 to 30 Apr 1894

Rhexia mariana var. exalbida Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1895 to 19 Jul 1895

Rhexia nuttallii C.W. James
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1895 to 30 Jun 1895

Rhexia ventricosa Fernald & Griscom
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1938

Rhexia cubensis Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1894 to 15 Jul 1894

Rhexia mariana var. exalbida Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1894 to 15 May 1894

Rhexia nashii Small
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1894 to 15 Jun 1894

Rhexia virginica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1892

Rhexia nuttallii C.W. James
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1894 to 15 Jul 1894

Rhexia alifanus Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1895

Rhexia petiolata Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1894 to 15 Aug 1894
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. 20225 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 09:33 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.