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 “Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly New York 7th Regiment” — 58 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:23 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 Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Richard L. Cramer, Company I, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Mathew B. Brady · 1861

Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly 7th New York Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly New York 12th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861

The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

New York 7th Regiment Officers
Egbert Guy Fowx, born KY 1821-died ca. 1891 · ca. 1863

The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne
Edouard Manet · 1864

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Christmas Eve (published "Harper's Weekly," January 3, 1863)
Thomas Nast · originally published 1863

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 4 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. 75 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 2026-09-06 03:23 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.