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 T. Vansant Manufacturing Company” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Covered Dish
John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company · ca. 1883

Library Table
Rose Valley Shops · 1904

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

Bassoon in C
John Meacham · ca. 1811

Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21

Novelty Iron works, Foot of 12th St. E.R. New York. Stillman, Allen & Co., Iron Founders, Steam Engine and General Machinery Manufacturers
John Penniman · 1842–55

Shield
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Design for T-Cart, no. 3969
Brewster & Co. · 1886

T-Cart Phaeton #1020
Brewster & Co. · 1850–70

Design for T-Cart, no. 3259a
Brewster & Co. · 1876

Design for T-Cart Phaeton, no. 3031a
Brewster & Co. · 1874

Design for T-Cart, no. 3266a
Brewster & Co. · 1876
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. 82 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:56 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.