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. 16 shown for “Folks At Home” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tapestry lining for tester (ciel for lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Beauvais · ca. 1780–90

Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Artist not stated in the record · 1895

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

Folks At Home
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1912

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Plantation Scene; Folks All Home
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1874

Torso of a High General
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Frost's Dialogues for Young Folks
Artist not stated in the record

Webster's Little Folks Speaker
Artist not stated in the record

Girlhood
J. Carroll Beckwith · 1901

Ravine at Sorrento
Edouard Bertin · 1821 or later

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

See 1986.18.6
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

The Fair at Bezons
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1733

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Relief chalice rim fragment with a wedjat frieze and below that a Hathor sistrum head emerging from papyrus plants (joined with 2010.9)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE
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. 2845 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 357361 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 08:18 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.