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 “John Cochran” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
William Shakespeare
John Cochran · 1827

John Cochrane
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Side of a Greenhouse
George Cochran Lambdin · 1870–80 (?)

Grand Banner of the Radical Democracy for 1864
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1864

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Frontispiece to "A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery"
John Cochran, 1821 - 1865 · 1843

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

James Cochran Dobbin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1845

"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Maulana Azhar · ca. 1430

Film still for The Emperor Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 1933

Longcase clock
John Ashbrooke · ca. 1695–1700

Carex hermannii Cochrane
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1960

"A Muslim Pilgrim Learns a Lesson in Piety from a Brahman", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98
Freziera undulata (Sw.) Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2008

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Parkinsonia texana (A. Gray) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1976

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Trichilia havanensis Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1976

"How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Crataegus gracilior J.B. Phipps
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1976

"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Rhus trilobata Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1976

"Alexander is Lowered into the Sea", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Citrus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 261655 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 03:59 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.