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. 13 shown for “Panoramic photo of the machine gun company of the 366th Infantry” — 50 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 07:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Panoramic photo of the machine gun company of the 366th Infantry
Artist not stated in the record · 1919

Panoramic photo of the Officers 366th Infantry, 183rd Brigade at Camp Dodge
Artist not stated in the record · 1918

Framed panoramic photograph of 183d Brigade of the 92d Infantry Division
Duce & McClymonds, American, Twentieth century · 1918

Framed panoramic photograph of M Company, 365th Infantry, 183d Brigade
Rockford Illustrating Company, American, 1894 - 1971 · 1917-1919

Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt
Unidentified · 1917

3d Bn. 366 Inf. - 92nd Div. at Gas Mask drill - Ainvelle, Vosges, France - Aug 8, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918

Albumen print of U.S. 25th Infantry Regiment Company H
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

366 Inf. 92nd Div. Ainville, Vosges, France - Aug 11. 1918
Artist not stated in the record · August 11, 1918

Company C 367th Infantry "Just back from France"
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · March 1919

367 Machine Gun Bn. enroute to Argonne Front passing thru St. Minehould Sept. 15, 1923
Artist not stated in the record · September 15, 1923

Framed panoramic photograph of Camp Grant officers
Rockford Illustrating Company, American, 1894 - 1971 · November 7, 1917

"Big Nims" - 366 Inf. Ainvelle, Vosges, France, Aug 8, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · August 8,1918
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2990554 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-10 07:33 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.