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 “1847 Issue card plate proof envelope” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

1847 Issue card plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

5c red brown Franklin reproduction plate proof single
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1875

1869 Issue card plate plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

1870 Issue card plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

1851 Issue card plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

1890 Issue card plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

1861 Issue card plate proof envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

5c red brown Franklin reproduction plate proof single
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1875

1c Franklin reprint cardboard plate proof pane
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

6c Theodore Roosevelt plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · November 30, 1956

3c La Fortaleza plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing

5c Mary Cassatt plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · November 17, 1966
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 668143 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.