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. 18 shown for “Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England” — 46 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 07:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Photograph of crowd greeting Amelia Earhart in Southampton, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Photograph of Amelia Earhart looking out from back door of 'Friendship'
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862

Photograph of Amelia Earhart and others in Southampton, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874

Amelia Earhart
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1928

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif
Robert & Josiah Walsham · ca.1871

Posy Holder, Grape Cluster & Leaf Motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1871

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1869

Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif
Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca. 1869-1880

Bouquet holder, birds and leaves motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Bouquet holder, grape leaf motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1871
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2968602 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 07:32 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.