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 “1c Captain John Smith plate proof” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Mirror clock
Master CR · ca. 1565–70

Joseph Tayadaneega, called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations
John Raphael Smith · February 10, 1779

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
John Hoppner

Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1888

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard of Captain W. E. Cracraft
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Stoke-by-Nayland
John Constable · ca. 1810–11
![A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs, to Greenwich, on the North, or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point on the East, or Sound River, Shewing the Several Street, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort, & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds with and without the Town, Survey'd in Winter 1766-66 [The Montresor Plan], by Peter Andrews](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-44831-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs, to Greenwich, on the North, or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point on the East, or Sound River, Shewing the Several Street, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort, & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds with and without the Town, Survey'd in Winter 1766-66 [The Montresor Plan]
Peter Andrews · 1768

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2
Alexander Gardner · 1863

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72
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. 126 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 16:39 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.