Images / art

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 “Confederate flag-of-truce letter” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

[225 Stereographs of United States Architecture]

Various · 1850s–90s

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce letter

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne

Edouard Manet · 1864

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Lady Harriet Acland, Crossing the Hudson River to the American Lines, Presenting Her Safe Conduct

Robert Pollard · November 15, 1784

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Proclamation of the Treaty of Munster

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1648

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Plate 32: Men with heraldic flags and horses from Overijssel and Utrecht marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

Cornelis Galle I · 1623

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Plate 6: Ferdinand receiving the keys to the city of Ghent; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

End of the Bridge after Burnside's Attack, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell · 1863

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · July 25, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Calm Sea

Simon de Vlieger · after 1640

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · October 2, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Sherman at Savannah, Georgia

Otto Botticher · 1865

Public domainThe Met

Confederate cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Saint Michael the Archangel

Ignacio de Ries · 1640s

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Pitcher

Millington, Astbury and Poulson · ca. 1861

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial

Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met

Confederate flag-of-truce cover

Artist not stated in the record · November 12, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

What was queried

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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 850 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 01:22 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.

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Elsewhere in the catalogue

Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.