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. 19 shown for “James Neagle” — 47 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 03:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Certificate of Membership for the Society of Copper Plate Printers
James Neagle · 19th century

"The Columbiad" -- Cruelty Presiding Over the Prison Ship
James Neagle, 1760? - 1822 · 1807

Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)
James Neagle · June 4, 1794

John Neagle
Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

Certificate of Membership of the Society of Copper-Plate Printers
Edward Francis Burney · 19th century

The Voyage of Life--Manhood
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

Major General Charles Lee
Alexander Hay Ritchie · 1860

The Voyage of Life--Youth
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1853

John Haviland
John Neagle · 1828

The Voyage of Life--Old Age
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1856

The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare · 1805

The Voyage of Life--Childhood
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod
John Flaxman · 1795–1817

James Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1818

Robert Richford Roberts
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

Henry Laurens
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816

Joseph Clay Neal
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1837

Independence Hall
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1855

Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer
Artist not stated in the record · 1823
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118597 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-09 03:29 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.