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 Rice and James G. Clark” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)
Yombe-Kongo artist and nganga (ritual specialist) · ca. 1880–1900

ITCHO-TUSTINNUGGEE, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

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

APAULY-TUSTENNUGGEE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

AMISKQUEW. A MENOMINIE WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

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

OCHE-FINCECO, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
Daniël Mijtens · 1629

JOHN ROSS. A CHEROKEE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

PO-CA-HON-TAS.
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1842

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Yaha-hajo. A Seminole Chief.
Alfred M. Hoffy, born ca. 1790 England-died after 1860 · 1842

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

Encampment of Piekann Indians
Karl Bodmer, 1809 - 1893 · 1842

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

MON-CHONSIA. A KANSAS CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1842

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

NO-TIN. A CHIPPEWA CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1842

Cuirass and Tassets (Torso and Hip Defense)
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1510–20

WAA-TOP-E-NOT., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

Three-Quarter Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525 and later

NAH-ET-LUC-HOPIE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843
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. 263 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. 2275441 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 14:29 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.