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. 20 shown for “McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co
Henry Inman · 1832–33

QUA-TA-WA-PLA. A SHAWANOE CHIEF from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

Hayne Hudjihini, Eagle of Delight
Henry Inman · 1832–33

PA-SHE-PA-HAW. A SAUK CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

META-KOOSEGA. A CHIPPEWAY WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

PAYTA-KOOTHA. A SHAWANOE WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

SE-QUO-YAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen
Adam August Müller · 1830

PET-A-LE-SHAR-RO. A PAWNEE BRAVE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

HAYNE-HUDJIHINI. THE EAGLE OF DELIGHT., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1837-1844

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle
Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

ITCHO-TUSTINNUGGEE, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

APAULY-TUSTENNUGGEE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

AMISKQUEW. A MENOMINIE WARRIOR., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

OCHE-FINCECO, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843

JOHN ROSS. A CHEROKEE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1843
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 330 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 16:51 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.