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 “Daniel John Pound” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"
Daniel John Pound · 1859

John Pounds by William Sharp and Ephraim Bouve
Sharp, William · 1843-1844

John Everett Millais, Esq., A.R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"
Daniel John Pound · 1859

Leather letter carrier satchel
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1966

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck
John Singleton Copley · 1771
Lecanora epibryon (Ach.) Ach.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1827

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Casuarina muelleriana Miq.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1959

Sugar Box
John Coney · ca. 1710

Potentilla viridescens Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1897

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Grimmia californica Sull.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1897

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Grimmia platyphylla Mitt.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1897

Eight-Day Tall Case Clock with Musical Movement
Daniel Burnap · 1790–95

Dicranum fragilifolium Lindb.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1897

Stained glass window
Daniel Cottier · ca. 1877–80

Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimp.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1897

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Grimmia longirostris Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1897

Classical Landscape with Roma Figures
John Wootton · 1748

Dicranum elongatum Schleich. ex Schwägr.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1877

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

John Daniel Imboden
Unidentified Artist · c. 1863
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. 825 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 279566 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-04 04:25 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.