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. 23 shown for “Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Badge from Madam C.J. Walker convention
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920s

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Badge from the National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker's Agents
Artist not stated in the record · 1917

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Photograph of a convention of Madam C.J. Walker agents at Villa Lewaro
Artist not stated in the record · 1924

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s - 1920s

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Member badge
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Tin for Madam C.J. Walker's Hair and Scalp Preparation
Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

Sign for authorized agent of Mme. C.J. Walker's
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1930

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Tin for Madam Walker Glossine and Pressing Oil
Artist not stated in the record · 1940s - 1960s

Gwandusu
Bamana numu (blacksmith) · 15th–17th century

Photograph of Madam C.J. Walker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1912

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's "Tan-Off"
Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1906 · 1920s

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · Early 15th–mid-16th century

Diploma from The Lelia College
Artist not stated in the record · 1916

Madame Frederic Breyer (Fanny Hélène Van Bruyssel, 1830–1894)
Gustave Courbet · 1858

Tin for Madam C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower
Artist not stated in the record · 1920s
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 432900 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 2026-09-01 03:47 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.