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 “2c Andrew Jackson State Department special printing single” — 61 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:10 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 Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

2c Andrew Jackson State Department special printing single
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

2c Andrew Jackson special printing single
Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

Snow, Moon, and Cherry Blossoms (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)
Chōbunsai Eishi · early 19th century

2c Andrew Jackson War Department special printing single
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department special printing single
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

2c Andrew Jackson Interior Department special printing single
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

2c Andrew Jackson Executive special printing single
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

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

2c Jackson single
American Bank Note Company · 1880

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

2c Andrew Jackson State Department single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass
Edgar Degas · ca. 1882–85

2c Andrew Jackson Justice Department single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

2c Andrew Jackson Navy Department single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

2c Andrew Jackson War Department single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary
Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

2c Andrew Jackson Agriculture Department single
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
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. 21 matched · 21 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. 5773303 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 2026-08-31 23:10 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.