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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. 23 shown for “Advertisement for Sheaffer's ink and pencil leads” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 02:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Advertisement for Sheaffer's ink and pencil leads
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
V-Mail stationery ink bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1942-1945
Study for a Prometheus Bound (recto); slight sketch of head and shoulders of man in lead pencil (verso)
Salvator Rosa · 1615–73
1c Honolulu Harbor source etching from newspaper
Artist not stated in the record · 1884
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835
Costume Design: A German for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Costume Design: America for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3038a
Brewster & Co. · 1874
Costume Design: Poetry for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1815
Penny Picture Display, Savannah
Walker Evans · 1936
Project: The elevation of an organ case
Artist not stated in the record · 1793
![Study for an engraving: "Almanac pour l'an de Bissexte M.DC.XCII: La Lotterie Chimerique d'Augsbourg où chacun met du sien sans proffit"[sic], by Anonymous, French, 17th century](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP247285.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Study for an engraving: "Almanac pour l'an de Bissexte M.DC.XCII: La Lotterie Chimerique d'Augsbourg où chacun met du sien sans proffit"[sic]
Anonymous, French, 17th century · Late 17th century
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · September 20, 1866
A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · ca. 1814–15
Stage Design: Palace Architecture
Unknown, Italian · 1750–99
Album of Bit Designs
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand von Talmberg · 1674
Windmills
Louis Adolphe Hervier, French, 1818 - 1879 · 1851
Sheaffer's Voyager V-Mail stationery canister
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1940s
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. 91 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1524915 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 02:11 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.