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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405
Artist not stated in the record · November 14, 1883

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

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

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

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

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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

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

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

Head of a ruler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2000 BCE

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

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

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

Santa Claus in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 7, p. 1)
Thomas Nast · January 3, 1863

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

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810

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

Atalanta and Meleager
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

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

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

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

The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover)
Winslow Homer · June 29, 1861

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
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.