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. 19 shown for “Albumen print of Stephen Johnson” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Albumen print of Stephen Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

Fort Johnson
Unknown · 1861–65

Stephen Johnson Field
Unidentified Artist · c. 1877

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868
![[Group of 8 Early Stereograph Views of British Monuments, Memorials, and Tombs], by Lennie](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP73049.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 8 Early Stereograph Views of British Monuments, Memorials, and Tombs]
Lennie · 1850s–1910s

The Supreme Court of the United States
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1867

Satyr, British Museum
Stephen Thompson · 1869–72

Albumen print of a man with moustache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Julia Jackson
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1867

Albumen print of Harriet Tubman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1908; printed ca. 1920

Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64
Adrien Tournachon · 1854–56, printed 1862

Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

Cabinet card of Carrie
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1905

Carte-de-visite portrait of Walter W. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · 1868

Albumen print of three members of the Boyd family
Unidentified · 1890-1930

Margaret Fuller
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 · c. 1870 (after 1846 daguerreotype)

Albumen print of African American Odd Fellows in front of a grandstand
Unidentified · 1890-1930
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. 276 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2897386 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 10:57 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.