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 “Awl from Traveling Dressing Case” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dress and belt with awl case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Awl from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–60

Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector
Johann G. Racine · case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750

Nail File from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Case (part of a traveling set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1756

Crochet Hook from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Prayer book with case (mahdar)
Wäldä Maryam · 19th century

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Pocket Knife from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
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. 66 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 442575 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 2026-08-28 04:48 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.