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 “Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase
Grueby Faience Company · ca. 1900–1910

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.
Artist not stated in the record · February 15, 1956

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1st–2nd century CE

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

M is for Mississippi and Murder
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · October 23, 1955

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 6, 1945

Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Cosimo Rosselli · early 1480s

Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · February 1955
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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1081970 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 15:15 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.