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. 14 shown for “Mary Munro” — 62 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sampler
Mary Munro · 1788

Ichnanthus pallens (Sw.) Munro ex Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1916

Sampler
Rebekah S. Munro · ca. 1791

Stipagrostis plumosa (L.) Munro ex T. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1886

Monarda didyma/ Scarlet Lion's Tail
The Hon. Booth Grey · ca. 1791 (?)

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

The Drummond Children
Sir Henry Raeburn · ca. 1808–9

Imaginary Landscape
Gaspard Dughet

Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
Edgar Degas · 1885

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Textile Depicting a Scene from Nizami's Khamsa
Nizami · 16th–17th century
Pendant Icon: St. George, Virgin and Child Enthroned
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 3 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. 63825 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:44 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.