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 “Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor” — 57 records examined, 31 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.
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Alfred Sisley · 1872

Beauty Parlor--"Verschonerung"
Jules Pascin, born Vidin, Bulgaria 1885-died Paris, France 1930 · ca. 1930

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

The Negro Motorist Green-Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1941

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Paso Robles Hotel Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1897

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine)
Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1844

At the Fender
Wallace Nutting, American, 1861–1942 · 1904

Alphabet game in book form
Artist not stated in the record · 1810

We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)
Lilly Martin Spencer, born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902 · 1869

Settee (canapé) (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Laliberte's Fur Parlor, the Finest in the World, Quebec, Canada
Strohmeyer and Wyman, active 1887-1899 · 1894

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Price list for Poro beauty products
Artist not stated in the record · 1915-1953

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Aquarium fountain, Canna indica
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 2881788 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 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.