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. 21 shown for “New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14
Artist not stated in the record · October 5, 1833

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710
Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1970

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Mirror with floral roundels
Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Mirror with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol XXVII, No. 1405
Artist not stated in the record · November 14, 1883

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Why Born A Slave? (Pourquoi Naitre Esclave?)
Artist not stated in the record · (1868, cast by 1963)

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Virgin and Child with Saint John (Study for "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon")
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875 · (1864/cast after 1890)

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

The American Apollo magazine
Artist not stated in the record · March 16, 1792

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Black silk velvet coat with white fur collar and sleeves
Lord & Taylor, American, founded 1926 · 1930s-1940s

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1341–42
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. 10032 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. 94 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:49 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.