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. 15 shown for “Eddie Ed, American” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
John Lloyd Stephens · 1842

Flier for a hip-hop event at T-Connection Disco featuring Afrika Bambaataa
Eddie Ed, American · 1980

Portrait of a Lady (possibly Tryntje Otten Veeder)
Schuyler Limner · 1720–25

Flier for “Dynasty Jam Boogie” designed by Eddie Ed
Eddie Ed, American · March 21, 1980

Flintlock Longrifle
Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Flier for hip-hop event at T-Connection featuring DJ Love Squigg
Eddie Ed, American · 1980

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Flier for “The Final Countdown - The Battle, Cosmic Force vs. The Funky 4”
Eddie Ed, American · December 19, 1981

Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Flier for "The Funky Four Plus One More" designed by Eddie Ed
Eddie Ed, American · November 21, 1980

"Francesca" Violin
Antonio Stradivari · 1694

Pilot Eddie Gardner's aviation leggings
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919

Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830

Photograph of airmail pilot Eddie Gardner
Artist not stated in the record · August 1918

Mandolin
Angelo Mannello · ca. 1900
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. 6930 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1013959 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 15:12 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.