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 Jones” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651
Griswold and Gunnison · 1864

John Jones Waldo
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

Wall clock
John Jones · ca. 1760

John Paul Jones
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

John Paul Jones
Jean Michel Moreau, Le Jeune, 1741 - 1814 · 1781

John Paul Jones (1747–1792)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1903, after a model of 1781

John Paul Jones
Unidentified Artist · 1780

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852

John Paul Jones
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1830

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

John Paul Jones
Unidentified Artist · 1779

Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

John Paul Jones
Johann Elias Haid, 1739 - 1809 · c. 1779

Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth
John Jones · 1787

John Paul Jones
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1905

Bracelet (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

John Paul Jones
Carl Guttenberg, 1743 - 1790 · c. 1781

Bracelet (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress
Winslow Homer, 24 Feb 1836 - 29 Sep 1910 · 1861

Necklace (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Marquis de Lafayette
John Jones, 1745 - 1797 · 1792

Pair of earrings (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

1c John Paul Jones and John Barry plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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. 343 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 294427 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 23:43 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.