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 “NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 590–580 BCE

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · May 27, 1954

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Reception for T.R.M. Howard, M.D.
Artist not stated in the record · February 15, 1956

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

Landscape with a Village in the Distance
Jacob van Ruisdael · 1646

Handbill advertising Negro History Week at Freedom House, Boston
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · ca. 1955

Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Painter of London B 76 · ca. 560–550 BCE

Flier announcing the NAACP National Youth Legislative Conference
NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936 · February 1955

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Membership Application for the NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · early 1950s

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 6, 1945

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

Venus and the Lute Player
Titian · ca. 1565–70

Flier announcing an NAACP Memorial Meeting for Emmett Till
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · October 23, 1955

Marble male figure
Artist not stated in the record · 2400–2300 BCE or later

House of Representatives anti-lynching cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1936
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. 54 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. 1081158 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 17:00 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.