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 “Gorget for an Officer of the South Carolina Infantry Regiment” — 54 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gorget for an Officer of the South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Carte-de-visite album of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
John Ritchie, American, 1836 - 1919 · ca.1864

Equestrian portrait of William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)
David Morier · ca. 1751–60

Flag for a reunion of 54th Massachusetts Infantry survivors of Fort Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Silver badge for George Washington Perkins of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Infantry Private Frock Coat and Hardee Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1857 - 1872

Mrs. Daniel DeSaussure Bacot
Samuel F. B. Morse · ca. 1820

Silver badge for Alexander Hill of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813–ca. 1815

Muster roll for Company K of the 24th Infantry Regiment
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · December 31, 1873

Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920)
Auguste Renoir · 1871

Insignia from the 24th Infantry Regiment, Company C
Artist not stated in the record · 1869 - 1951

Amerapoora: Part of Balcony on the South Side of Maha-oung-meeay-liy-mhan Kyoung
Linnaeus Tripe · September 1–October 21, 1855

Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill, July 2nd, 1898
Kurz & Allison, American, founded 1880 · 1899

Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 19th century

Lapel pin for 48th Infantry Regiment Unit worn by General Colin L. Powell
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1960-1962

Amerapoora: Corner of Mygabhoodee-tee Kyoung
Linnaeus Tripe · September 1–October 21, 1855

Traveling trunk used by George Thompson Garrison in the Civil War
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Pitcher
Millington, Astbury and Poulson · ca. 1861

Good Night Angeline
Artist not stated in the record · 1919

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia
Andrew Joseph Russell · 1863

Order of Commendation from the Commander of the French Armies of the East
French Republic, French, founded 1792 · March 19, 1919
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 1 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. 4308909 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-02 14:22 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.