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 Lynch” — 59 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cavalry Officer's Saber
John Lynch · ca. 1810

John Lynch
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
John Hoppner
John Roy Lynch
Charles Milton Bell, 3 Apr 1848 - 12 May 1893 · c. 1882

Art treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Francis Bedford · 1858

Heroes of the Colored Race
Joseph Hoover, 1830 - 1913 · 1881

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Achilles Painter · 445-435 BCE
Abutilon theophrasti Medik.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1967

View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil
Sita Ram · ca. 1814–23

Afro-American Historical Family Record
James M. Vickroy, 1847 - 1913 · 1899

Album Page with Decoupe Vase of Flowers, Insects, and Birds
Muhammad Hasan · 1630–40

Engraved portrait of five members of Reconstruction Congresses
Wellstood & Co., American · early 1880s

John H. "Jack" Lynch, New York Metropolitans, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1887–90

Achnatherum hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 2016

John H. "Jack" Lynch, New York Metropolitans, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1887–90

Hesperostipa comata (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 2016

John H. "Jack" Lynch, New York Metropolitans, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1887–90

Aristida purpurea Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 2016

John C. Calhoun
Savinien Edme Dubourjal · 1846

Elymus elymoides (Raf.) Swezey
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 2016

Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Helianthus annuus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 2016
![[The Great Man Has Fallen], by Robert H. Vance](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP332490.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Great Man Has Fallen]
Robert H. Vance · 1856

Elymus elymoides (Raf.) Swezey
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 2016
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 7 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. 261207 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 05:12 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.