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 “Album Page with Cut-Paper Decoration” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Album Page with Cut-Paper Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–50

Tintype portrait of Miss Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Tintype portrait of Col. C. W. Folsom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints
Gideon Saint · ca. 1760

Albumen portrait of Charlotte S. Poulton mounted on paper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Albumen portrait of Fanny Seward mounted on paper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

cut corner with MPO postal marking on album page
Artist not stated in the record · August 1, 1948
![Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées], by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP104573.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées]
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · 1771, 1764

Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Album of Calligraphies Including Poetry and Prophetic Traditions (Hadith)
Shaikh Hamdullah ibn Mustafa Dede · ca. 1500

Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing
Konoe Nobutada · early 17th century

cut corner with two cancels on album page
Artist not stated in the record · October 19, 1945

Album Page with Decoupe Vase of Flowers, Insects, and Birds
Muhammad Hasan · 1630–40

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Mansur · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45

Polish FPO 141 cut corner on album page
Artist not stated in the record · November 6, 1946

Figure of a Mouse in Deep Blue Glass
Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland
Artist not stated in the record · 1864
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. 285 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3630 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 16:49 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.