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 “Figure of a Civil Official” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:28 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figure of a Civil Official
Artist not stated in the record

The Plank - Hitting the Nail on the Head
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · 1875

Seated figure
Middle Niger artist · 13th century

Heroes of the Colored Race
Joseph Hoover, 1830 - 1913 · 1881

Figure of a civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Out of Darkness Into Light
Unidentified Artist · c. 1881

Figure of a civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Occupation of Ye Wicked City of Baltimore
Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912 · c. 1862

Bust of an Official
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Valiant Men "Dat Fite Mit Sigel"
Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912 · 1864

Figure of a seated civil official
Artist not stated in the record

Last Moments of President Lincoln
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1865

Female figure with raised arm
Tellem blacksmith · 15th–16th century

Hercules of the Union
Unidentified Artist · 1861

Tomb guardian in form of a civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Full Dress Rehearsal of the Grand Presidential Corps de Ballet
Charles Kendrick, active 1880 - c. 1902 · 1880

Court official from a commemorative altar
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–17th century

The Fifteenth Amendment
Unidentified Artist · 1870

Figure
Middle Niger artist · 9th–17th century

Flight of President Davis
Unidentified Artist · 1865

Figure
Middle Niger artist · 9th–17th century

Siege of Vicksburg
Frederick B. Schell, 1838 - 1900 · August 8, 1863

Guardian Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Jeff Davis, On His Own Platform
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1861
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. 1248 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. 3858042 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 21:28 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.