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. 22 shown for “Andrew Jackson Downing” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Architecture of Country Houses; including Designs for Cottages, Farm Houses, and Villas
Andrew Jackson Downing · 1850

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

Andrew Jackson
Hiram Powers · 1834–35; carved 1839

Andrew Jackson Downing Urn on Smithsonian Grounds
Unknown · 1860

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
Andrew Jackson Downing · 1841

Andrew Jackson Downing Urn on Smithsonian Grounds
Unknown · 1860

Cottage Residences; or a Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage-Villas, and Their Grounds, Adapted to North America
Andrew Jackson Downing · 1842

Andrew Jackson
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1824

Saint Andrew
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Andrew Jackson
Moritz Furst, Mar 1782 - after 1841 · 1929 (struck 1831-32)

General Andrew Jackson
John Wesley Jarvis · ca. 1819

Andrew Jackson
Artist not stated in the record · 1855

Summer Flowers
Jerome B. Thompson · 1859

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

General Andrew Jackson
Asher Brown Durand · June 1828

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

General Andrew Jackson
Asher Brown Durand · June 1828

Andrew Jackson
Trevor Thomas Fowler, 1800 - 1868? · 1840

General Andrew Jackson
Samuel Lovett Waldo · 1819

Andrew Jackson
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1829

Medal of Andrew Jackson
Moritz Fürst · 1829

Token of Andrew Jackson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876
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. 312 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 55953 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:06 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.