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 “Carte-de-visite portrait of Lydia Maria Child” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Carte-de-visite portrait of Lydia Maria Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Carte-de-visite of a small child
Artist not stated in the record · 1879-1882

Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Lydia Jackson Emerson
Black & Case, active 1864 - 1867 · 1866

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Carte-de-visite of a woman and child in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Carte-de-visite of two children
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s-1870s

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Charlotte Maria Cross Wigfall
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Carte-de-visite of Hubert Gideon Welles in outfit sewn by Elizabeth Keckly
Artist not stated in the record · 1862; printed 1865

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Carte-de-visite of a toddler in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Carte-de-visite of a young boy in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Carte-de-visite of women and children in a cotton field
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s
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. 254 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. 33 matched · 33 examined · 3 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 11:57 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.