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. 12 shown for “John Christen Johansen, 25 Nov 1876 - 23 Jun 1964” — 40 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woodrow Wilson
John Christen Johansen, 25 Nov 1876 - 23 Jun 1964 · c. 1919

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
John Christen Johansen, 25 Nov 1876 - 23 Jun 1964 · 1919

Draba macrocarpa Adams
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1914

Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1913

Bauhinia purpurea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1925

Ranunculus pygmaeus Wahlenb.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1915

Betula glandulosa Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1915

Chrysobalanus icaco L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/6/25

Erigeron humilis Graham
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1915
Membranoptera platyphylla (Setch. & N.L. Gardner) Kylin
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1965

Delphinium intermedium Aiton
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1866

Bottle used to christen the S.S. Harriet Tubman
Unidentified · June 3, 1944
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3695854 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 22:26 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.