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. 11 shown for “David II Pfau” — 40 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Dwight David Eisenhower
Unidentified Artist · 1944

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert F. Cranston, 26 Jul 1897 - 1978 · c. 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · 1945

David D. Field
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

David D. Field
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

David D. Field
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

David Dudley Field
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The High Command - Left Panel
Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 - 22 Jul 1949 · 1947-49

The Bottle: Plate II. He Is Discharged From His Employment For Drunkness...by lithographers Francis Michelin and David William Moody
Michelin, Francis · ca 1847

LE CHIMISTE
Hormann

Advertisement for New Haven Railroad
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118435 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:15 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.