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. 19 shown for “Linnaeus Tripe” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tatta Suddhi Mundapam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Spiraea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1938

The Kulayana Mundapam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Elsholtzia densa Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1938

The Jewels of the Pagoda
Linnaeus Tripe · January 1858

Elsholtzia fruticosa (D. Don) Rehder
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1938

The Muduramiar Mundapam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Lomatogonium chumbicum (Burkill) Harry Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1947

The Viravasuntarayan Munapam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1938

The Western Gopuram
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

The Tamukkam or Tamkam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

Anthus rubescens rubescens
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1947

Amerapoora, Palace of the White Elephant
Linnaeus Tripe · 1 September–21 October 1855

Amerapoora, Barracks of the Burmese Guard
Linnaeus Tripe · 1 September–21 October 1855

The Great Pagoda
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

The Neerali Mundapam
Linnaeus Tripe · January–March 1858

The Elephant Rock
Linnaeus Tripe · January–February 1858
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 18538 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 2026-08-28 08:51 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.