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. 9 shown for “Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage” — 43 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 22:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reliquary bust of a companion of Saint Ursula
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Jan (1438/41–1516), First Count of Egmond; Magdalena, Countess of Egmond (1464–1538)
North Netherlandish Painter

Flier for "Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom" meeting at Enon Baptist Church
Unidentified · 1957

Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

A Ghost
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1877

World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Medal issued to Mrs. Margaret A. Neal
Artist not stated in the record · 1930

Lecanora sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1992

Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet Tries to Follow the Ghost of his Father (I,4)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 980473 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 22:13 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.