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. 8 shown for “Letter written by Nelson Jordan Jr. and Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack” — 40 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Letter written by Nelson Jordan Jr. and Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack
Artist not stated in the record · February 4, 1910

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack
Artist not stated in the record · January 20, 1910

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack with an envelope
Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1909

Letter from Julia Jordan to G. H. Womack
Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1908

Letter from Thomas Womack to Julia Womack with envelope
Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1915

Bill of exchange between Carrie Jordan and Nelson Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1909

Photographic postcard of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1922

Albumen print of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2383518 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:22 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.