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. 16 shown for “Andrew Jackson's Uniform Coat with Epaulets” — 47 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pocket chronometer
François Czapek · ca. 1850–55

Andrew Jackson's Uniform Coat with Epaulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1812

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Uniform coat owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490
Andrew Jackson
Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, c. 1788 - 1838 · 1817?

Lieutenant Colonel Paul Pechell (1724–1800)
Thomas Gainsborough

Andrew Jackson Downing
John Halpin, active 1849 - 1867 · c. 1852

Andrew Jackson Général
Jules Lion, 1810 - 9 Jan 1866 · c. 1845

Andrew Jackson
Jules Lion, 1810 - 9 Jan 1866 · c. 1835-37

Sketch, Figure in Uniform with Book
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Andrew Jackson
Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831 · 1819

Andrew Jackson
Risso & Browne Lithography Company, active 1832 - 1838? · c. 1833

Andrew Jackson
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1908

Andrew Jackson
Augustus Fay, 1824? - ? · 1850
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 293167 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-04 03:21 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.