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. 16 shown for “Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander” — 44 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:22 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 Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Cabinet card portait of Izetta Alexander
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1889

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Cabinet card of Alexander H. Rieder by the Globe Photo Studio
Artist not stated in the record · 1892

Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Benedetto Luti · 1715–20

Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne
Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1888

Rapier
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Alexander W. Chase
Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · c. 1875

James A. Linen
Frank Augustus Jewell, 28 Nov 1838 - 13 Feb 1903 · c. 1881

Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1865

Carte-de-viste of a Buffalo Soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Cabinet card of three young women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Cabinet card of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Cabinet card of Susan Bell
Artist not stated in the record · February-March 5, 1894

Cabinet card photograph of Blanche Randals
Artist not stated in the record · early 1890s-1908
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2923304 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 08:22 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.