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 “Joseph Locke” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase
Joseph Locke · 1883–87

Bill of sale with two transactions for an enslaved man named Joe or Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · 1844

Casket with Erotes and Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Walls of Miraflores Lock
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

Sutra box with dragons amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record

The Guard Gate, Gatun
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

The Gates of Pedro Miguel
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1912

Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580
Vicia caroliniana Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1908

Story of Golden Locks
Seymour Joseph Guy · ca. 1870

Dianthus deltoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1901

Filing cabinet (cartonnier) (part of a set)
Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Schermack stamp vending machines
Schermack Products Corporation · 1950-1960

Casket with Warriors and Mythological Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Oxalis dillenii Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1908

Flintlock Gun
Louis Jaley · dated 1735

Avena sativa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1903

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Captain Joseph Anthony
Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02 · ca. 1794

Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Tul-lock-chísh-ko, Drinks the Juice of the Stone
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834

A View of Moulins
Henri-Joseph Harpignies · ca. 1850–60
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. 133 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 88139 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 2026-09-02 09:19 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.