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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 “Military Decoration Presented to General T. F. Meagher of the Irish Brigade” — 52 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 13:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Military Decoration Presented to General T. F. Meagher of the Irish Brigade
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Presented by the Irish Brigade to Brigadier General T. F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record
Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Designating Flag, 4th Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835
Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Major Lemuel Montgomery's Pistol
Bellah, J. · ca 1812
"Portrait of Zamana Beg, Mahabat Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–40
Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 6th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Designating Flag, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Designating Flag, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 6th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Head of a Central Asian Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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. 3901296 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 13:16 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.