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 “Church Queen ticket from the home of H.C. Anderson” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:50 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 Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Church Queen ticket from the home of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Concerned Citizens Voters League Card from the home of H.C. Anderson
Unidentified · 1994

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Receipt from Photo Supply Ltd. from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Unidentified · 1981

Stained Glass Panel with Queen Kunigunde
Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Address stamp from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Unidentified · ca. 1980

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Focus scope from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Unidentified · 1948 - 1970s

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Darkroom timer from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1960s

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Camera filter from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1970s

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Light meter from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1970s

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Camera from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Graflex Inc., 1887 - 1973 · 1947 - 1955

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Film box from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1970

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Light reflector from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s - 1970s

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Camera from the studio of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 1960s
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. 166 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. 3090307 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 17:50 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.