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. 12 shown for “Dayton-Wright Airplane Co.” — 58 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dayton-Wright DH-4
Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. · 1917-1918

Propeller, Two-Blade, Fixed-Pitch, Atwood-Wright
Atwood-Wright · 1911
Propeller, Two-Blade, Fixed-Pitch, Wright Ex "Vin Fiz"
Wright Company (Dayton, Ohio) · 1911
Wright EX Vin Fiz
Wright Company (Dayton, Ohio) · 1911

Wright Vertical 4, In-line 4 Engine
Wright Company (Dayton, Ohio) · 1906

1903 Wright Flyer
Artist not stated in the record · 1903

Wright brothers propeller, fixed-pitch, 1903 Wright Flyer
Wright Brothers, Dayton, Ohio · 1903

1900 Wright Glider (reproduction)
Ken Hyde and the Wright Experience Team · 2003

1909 Wright Military Flyer
Wright Brothers, Dayton, Ohio · 1909

Kreider-Reisner C-4C Challenger
Kreider-Reisner · ca. 1929
Fokker T-2
Fokker (N. V. Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek) · 1923

Curtiss 1A "Gulfhawk"
Curtiss Airplane Co. · ca. 1929
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 · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 41 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-10 18:22 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.