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 “Miles, Isaac L.” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 21:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Isaac Blessing Jacob
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Patent Model of an Apparatus for Printing on Bottles, Boxes, or Cans
Miles, Isaac L. · ca 1866

Looking Glass
Isaac Platt · 1829–35
Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1976

Looking Glass
Isaac Platt · 1829–35

Mangifera indica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1976

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Mangifera indica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1976

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Isaac L. Varian
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1839

Watch
F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

Astrolepis integerrima (Hook.) D.M. Benham & Windham
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959

Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 1264–88

Pellaea truncata Goodd.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959

Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson
Charles Fraser · 1823

Eulalia aurea (Bory) Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1966

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Myriopteris lindheimeri (Hook.) J. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959

Landscape with Figures (Les Bohémiens)
Camille Corot · 1872

Dichanthium sericeum subsp. humilius (J.M. Black) B.K. Simon
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jan 1966

"Kai Khusrau Crosses the Sea", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1610

Acacia curvinervia Maiden
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1961

Cat Statuette
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE
![[Steam Drop Hammer, Bement, Miles and Company, Philadelphia], by Unidentified](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DSAAM-1994.91.216_1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Steam Drop Hammer, Bement, Miles and Company, Philadelphia]
Unidentified · ca. 1865
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. 416 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1454428 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 21:40 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.