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. 19 shown for “Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Broadside handbill for Robert Gleed's candidacy for Sheriff of Lowndes County
Artist not stated in the record · September 28, 1875

Broadside
Joseph Meeks & Sons · 1833

Broadside for Blind Tom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

Porphyry support for a water basin
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Broadside for the musical drama "Out of Bondage"
Unidentified · 1876

Capital with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (from Saint-Guilhem Cloister)
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Broadside for Kairrissah at Front Street Theatre, Baltimore
Unidentified · 1834

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Broadside announcing the sale of a man, Dick, and a girl, Lydia
Artist not stated in the record · 1857

Lupona (royal seat)
Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama
Artist not stated in the record · 1858

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Broadside announcing the sale of enslaved persons in Mercer County, Kentucky
Artist not stated in the record · 1836

Andiron with figure of Jupiter (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

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

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175
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. 5197 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483684 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 05:47 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.