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. 21 shown for “John Badger Bachelder” — 49 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:24 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 Army of the Potomac
John Badger Bachelder · 1863

1849 - John Bachelder's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1849-05-08
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Clarinet in C
John R. Nickels · 1839–41

Lynx rufus californicus
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1888

Flute
Alfred G. Badger · 1860–65

Eriocoma pinetorum ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

John Barker (1707–1787)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1786

Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1987

The Holy Family with Saint John
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1754–62

Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M. Hend.) Romasch. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1987

The Holy Family with Saint John
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1754–62

Cymopterus cinerarius A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1953

The Loves of the Fox and The Badger, or The Coalition Wedding.
Thomas Rowlandson · January 7, 1784

Perityle megalocephala (S. Watson) J.F. Macbr. var. megalocephala
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

Prudence
Andrea della Robbia · ca. 1475

Chaenactis douglasii Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1953

Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji
Unidentified artist · early 15th century

Chenopodium leptophyllum (Moq.) Nutt. ex S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1954

Eriogonum wrightii Torr. ex Benth. in DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1953

Eriogonum umbellatum var. versicolor S. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1953

Osmorhiza occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2000
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260986 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 07:24 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.