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. 23 shown for “John Scott Bradstreet” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stained glass window
John Scott Bradstreet · 1906–8

General John Bradstreet
Thomas McIlworth, active c. 1757 - 1770 · c. 1764

Length
John Scott Bradstreet · ca. 1905

Lyman Walker and Henry Walton
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1840

Sofa
John Scott Bradstreet and Company · 1903–5

Louis Albert Gudebrod
Edward Bradstreet, 11 Nov 1878 - 14 Jan 1921 · 1906

John Barnard
John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Winfield Scott and John Ellis Wool
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400

Cabinet card of John H. Scott
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point
William Keith · 1879

Officers of Our Army, 1861
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

The Building of Westminster Bridge
Samuel Scott

General Winfield Scott
Unidentified Artist · July 13, 1861

"Joseph," Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht, Chief of the "Nez Percé" Indians
Olin Levi Warner · 1889; cast 1906

Winfield Scott and Generals
H. B. Hall · 1866

Mrs. Winfield Scott
Asher Brown Durand · 1831

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

Aten cartouche for jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Vessel stand naming the scribe Iui
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Grant and his Generals
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1865

Overseer Shabti of Psusennes I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1051–1002 BCE
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. 412 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 279583 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:55 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.