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Images / art

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 “Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:17 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405

Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405

Artist not stated in the record · November 14, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
The Songs of the War, from Harper's Weekly, November 23, 1861, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

The Songs of the War, from Harper's Weekly, November 23, 1861

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Reminiscences of the Maryland Campaign, from Harper's Weekly, August 16, 1863, by Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891

Reminiscences of the Maryland Campaign, from Harper's Weekly, August 16, 1863

Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
News from the War, from Harper's Weekly, June 14, 1862, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

News from the War, from Harper's Weekly, June 14, 1862

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Home from the War, from Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1863, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Home from the War, from Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1863

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a ruler

Head of a ruler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2000 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The War--Making Havelocks for the Volunteers, from Harper's Weekly, June 29, 1861, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

The War--Making Havelocks for the Volunteers, from Harper's Weekly, June 29, 1861

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
The Ceremonies of Dedication of the National Cemetery on the Battlefield of Antietam, MD, from Harper's Weekly, October 5, 1867, by Charles G. Bush, born Boston, MA 1842-died Camden, SC 1909

The Ceremonies of Dedication of the National Cemetery on the Battlefield of Antietam, MD, from Harper's Weekly, October 5, 1867

Charles G. Bush, born Boston, MA 1842-died Camden, SC 1909 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Santa Claus in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 7, p. 1), by Thomas Nast

Santa Claus in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 7, p. 1)

Thomas Nast · January 3, 1863

Public domainThe Met
Hancock, Maryland, from Harper's Weekly, November 8, 1862, by Theodore Russell Davis, born Boston, MA 1840-died Asbury Park, NJ 1894

Hancock, Maryland, from Harper's Weekly, November 8, 1862

Theodore Russell Davis, born Boston, MA 1840-died Asbury Park, NJ 1894 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, by Louis Léopold Boilly

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

Public domainThe Met
The Rebel Army Crossing the Fords of the Potomac for the Invasion of Maryland, from Harper's Weekly, September 27, 1862, by Thomas Nast, born Landau, Germany 1840-died Guayaquil, Ecuador 1902

The Rebel Army Crossing the Fords of the Potomac for the Invasion of Maryland, from Harper's Weekly, September 27, 1862

Thomas Nast, born Landau, Germany 1840-died Guayaquil, Ecuador 1902 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atalanta and Meleager, by Peter Paul Rubens

Atalanta and Meleager

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Our Women and the War, from Harper's Weekly, September 6, 1862, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Our Women and the War, from Harper's Weekly, September 6, 1862

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
The Army of the Potomac--A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty, from Harper's Weekly, November 15, 1862, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

The Army of the Potomac--A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty, from Harper's Weekly, November 15, 1862

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover), by Winslow Homer

The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover)

Winslow Homer · June 29, 1861

Public domainThe Met
Winter-quarters in Camp--The inside of a Hut, from Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

Winter-quarters in Camp--The inside of a Hut, from Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3507628 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-06 15:17 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.