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. 24 shown for “Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene
Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1335–45

Members of the N.Y. 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence McVey in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre medal
Alva Studio, American · ca. 1920

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt
Unidentified · 1917

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

New York 7th Regiment Officers
Egbert Guy Fowx, born KY 1821-died ca. 1891 · ca. 1863

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–1st quarter 16th century

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1914 - 1918

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

14192-15th. Reg. Colored troops giving retreat at Camp Upton, N.Y.
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1917-1919

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey
Albert Bartholomé, French, 1848 - 1928 · 1918

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Ryder Group/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 2261 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2984854 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 00:24 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.