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 “Land deed for property in West Virginia owned by the Crawford family” — 21 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 08:05 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.

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Reliefs from a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Vase (Old World)
Joseph S. Potter · ca. 1886–89

Vase (New World)
Joseph S. Potter · ca. 1886–89

Stele of Ushumgal and Shara-igizi-Abzu
Artist not stated in the record · 2900–2700 BCE

Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080

The Classic of Filial Piety
Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Poem of Farewell to Liu Man
Yelü Chucai · dated 1240

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170
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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 5 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 2026-09-06 08:05 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.