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 “Photograph of Amelia Earhart and others in Southampton, England” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire
Peter Langlois · 1764

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

Chandelier
John Gumley · ca. 1710–15

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

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

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

The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

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

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

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

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Photograph Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Photograph of Amelia Earhart in London, England
Artist not stated in the record · May 1932

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Photograph of Amelia Earhart signing autographs at Burry Port, Wales
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Photograph of Amelia Earhart in flight gear and with flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Photograph of Amelia Earhart accepting National Geographic Society medal
Artist not stated in the record · June 21, 1932

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

Photograph of Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Earhart and Lou Gordon in New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Photograph of Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932
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. 210 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. 7485268 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 05:55 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.