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 “Staurastrum intricatum var. minus Hansg.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:30 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.
Staurastrum intricatum var. minus Hansg.

Staurastrum intricatum var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staurastrum gemmatum var. angusticolla Hansg.

Staurastrum gemmatum var. angusticolla Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stigeoclonium variabile var. minus Hansg.

Stigeoclonium variabile var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stigeoclonium longipilum var. minus Hansg.

Stigeoclonium longipilum var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium trilobulatum var. minus Hansg.

Cosmarium trilobulatum var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dysphinctium tumens var. minus Hansg.

Dysphinctium tumens var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium debaryi var. minus Hansg.

Cosmarium debaryi var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coelosphaerium anomalum var. minus Hansg.

Coelosphaerium anomalum var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium holmiense var. minus Hansg.

Cosmarium holmiense var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium circulare var. minus Hansg.

Cosmarium circulare var. minus Hansg.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staurastrum muticum f. minus

Staurastrum muticum f. minus

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staurastrum hirsutum var. muricatum (Brébisson ex Ralfs) Kurt Förster

Staurastrum hirsutum var. muricatum (Brébisson ex Ralfs) Kurt Förster

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1892

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. 227313 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 2026-09-04 02:30 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.