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 “Mt. Zion M.E. Church, founded 1903” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two Tahitian Women
Paul Gauguin · 1899

Glass paperweight featuring Mt. Zion M.E. Church
Mt. Zion M.E. Church, founded 1903 · 20th Century

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church
Unidentified · 1915-1920

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Glyceria elata (Nash) M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1914 to 12 Aug 1914

Portrait of a Man
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4
Unidentified · 1956-1957

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Broadside for a performance by Madame Sissieretta Jones
Unidentified · 1893

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

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

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Astragalus oophorus var. caulescens (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 1927

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Eriogonum panguicense (M.E. Jones) Reveal
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1964

The Supper at Emmaus
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 2001

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1530–40

Fimbristylis caroliniana (Lam.) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 2001
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. 34 matched · 24 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. 296293 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 16:55 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.