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. 24 shown for “1c Franklin Interior Department card plate proof” — 54 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Washstand (athénienne or lavabo)
Charles Percier · 1800–1814

1c Franklin Interior Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

1c Franklin Interior Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1893

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

1c Franklin plate proof single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

1c Franklin Justice Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

1c Franklin Treasury Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11

1c Franklin War Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

1c Franklin plate proof single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Venus and the Lute Player
Titian · ca. 1565–70

1c Franklin Navy Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Papier-mâché side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

1c Franklin State Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Papier-mâché side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

1c Franklin Agriculture Department card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1894

Papier-mâchè side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

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

Papier-mâchè side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

1c Franklin plate proof
Post Office Department, (1792-1971) · November 30, 1910
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 705378 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 2026-09-01 03:57 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.