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 “Trochiscia sanguinea Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt” — 20 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 23:19 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.
Trochiscia sanguinea Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Trochiscia sanguinea Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closterium sigmoideum Lagerh. & Nordstedt in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Closterium sigmoideum Lagerh. & Nordstedt in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spirogyra maxima f. megaspora Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Spirogyra maxima f. megaspora Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stichococcus mirabilis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Stichococcus mirabilis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tetraspora cylindrica f. enteromorphoides Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Tetraspora cylindrica f. enteromorphoides Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmarium globosum subsp. subarctoum Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Cosmarium globosum subsp. subarctoum Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · May 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prasiola mexicana var. quitensis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Prasiola mexicana var. quitensis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · May 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prasiola mexicana var. quitensis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Prasiola mexicana var. quitensis Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaetobolus lapidicola Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Chaetobolus lapidicola Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oocystis submarina Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Oocystis submarina Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oocystis submarina Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Oocystis submarina Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedogonium areolatum Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Oedogonium areolatum Lagerh. in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1890

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. 20 matched · 20 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 2026-09-10 23:19 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.