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 “Isaac G. Tyson” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Isaac G. Tyson · November 19, 1863

Isaac F. Tyson
John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893 · 1835

Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642
Eragrostis dielsii Pilg.
Artist not stated in the record · 1892

Candlestick
Isaac Hutton · 1800–1815
Eragrostis falcata (Gaudich.) Gaudich. ex Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 1892

Candlestick
Isaac Hutton · 1800–1815

Monachather paradoxus Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 1898

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Austrostipa elegantissima (Labill.) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett
Artist not stated in the record · 1898

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Samuel Myer Isaacs
Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Monnina deppei G. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 1965

Pepper Caster
Isaac Hutton · ca. 1800

Spalacopsis (Euthuorus) filum brevialatum
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1928

Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson
Charles Fraser · 1823

Spalacopsis (Spalacopsis) unicolor
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1933

Beaker
Isaac Hutton · 1800–1830

Members, House of Assembly
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1798

Creamer
Isaac Hutton · 1810–30

Procyon lotor maynardi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1961

Pitcher
Isaac Hutton · 1790–1817

Psydrax odorata (G. Forst.) A.C. Sm. & S.P. Darwin
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1976
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. 147 matched · 24 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. 762804 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 16:58 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.