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. 22 shown for “J. Meyer” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coach #221
Brewster & Co. · ca. 1865
Sporobolus compositus (Poir.) Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1936

Le Palais de Znamensky près de Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Samuel Clemens
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1903

Le Palais à Strelna, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1941

Le Palais Anglais à Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Palais de S.A.I.Mgr. Le Duc de Leuchtenberg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Le Palais de S.A.I. Le Prince Grand duc Michel a Hamenny-Ostrof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell x C. fragilis (L.) Bernh.
Artist not stated in the record

Le Cottage D'Alexandrie près de Péterof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustatum (Willd.) R.T. Clausen
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Le Café au Jardin d'été à St. Pétersbourg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1879

La Colonnade du Palais a Tzarskoé-Sélo, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"
J. Meyer · ca. 1850

Dryopteris campyloptera Clarkson
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Tankard
Andreas Meyer · mounts ca. 1608–47, amber 19th century

St. Joseph (Missouri)
Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855

Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable
Gustave Courbet · 1857

Nauvoo (Mississippi)
Hermann J. Meyer, born Germany 1826-died Germany 1909 · ca. 1855

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Euclea natalensis A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 2002
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. 223 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1190412 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 21:44 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.