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. 20 shown for “American Anti-Slavery Almanac Vol. II, No. I” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

American Anti-Slavery Almanac Vol. II, No. I
Artist not stated in the record · 1842

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XX, No. 19
National Anti-Slavery Standard, American, 1840 - 1870 · September 24, 1859

Grand Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori · 1720

The Slave's Friend
Artist not stated in the record · 1839

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

The North Star, Vol. I No. 37
The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · September 8, 1848

Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9
Artist not stated in the record · February 25, 1837

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

The North Star, Volume 1, Number 22
The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · May 26, 1848

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans. Translated From the French. To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Artist not stated in the record · 1801

A View of the Present Seat of War, at and Near New York, in An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack for the year of Christian Æra, 1777
Nathaniel Low · 1776

Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons
Bernardo Daddi

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
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. 597 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:29 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.