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 “Boell and Michelin” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Broadway, New York, West Side from Fulton Street to Courtland Street
Boell and Michelin · 1856

Birds Eye View of Andersonville Prison Ga.
Boell, William · 1866

The Baker's Cart
Jean Michelin · 1656

Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914-1918): Verdun and the Battles for its Possession.
Artist not stated in the record · 1920

View of Park Place, New York, from Broadway to Church Street, North Side, A.D. 1854
William Boell · 1854
Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)
Artist not stated in the record

Snuffbox
Louis Michelin · 1752–53

The Bottle: Plate VI. Fearful Quarrels and Brutal Violence...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

St. John's College Fordham, New York
William Rodrigue · 1846–51

The Bottle: Plate VIII. The Bottle Has Done Its Work...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

Proposed Colossal Statue of George Washington for the City of New York
G. Thomas · 1845

The Bottle: Plate V. Cold, Misery and Want...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

The Bottle: Plate I. The Bottle Is Brought Out for the First Time...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca. 1847

Portrait of Jean-Francoise Marmontel
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1765

The Bottle: Plate IV. Unable to Obtain Employment...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

Portrait of Michel de Montaigne
Augustin de Saint-Aubin · 1774

The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, from "Herculean Subjects"
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · ca. 1526–27

The Bottle: Plate III. An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · 1480–85

The Bottle: Plate VII. The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Stephanosella biaperta (Michelin, 1848)
Artist not stated in the record
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. 26 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. 1463639 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 00:52 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.