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 in flight gear and with flowers” — 59 records examined, 2 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.
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

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

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

'Mrs. Putnam Flies Atlantic to Ireland in Record Time' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · May 21, 1932

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

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

Phebe Warner Coverlet
Sarah Furman Warner Williams · ca. 1803

Photograph of New York City parade honoring Amelia Earhart
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

Segment of a Crozier Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Postcard of Amelia Earhart's monoplane "Friendship"
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Amelia Earhart's flight suit
Arnold, Constable & Company · c. 1928

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

News clippings surrounding Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight to Europe
Artist not stated in the record · May 1932

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Amelia Earhart (with George Palmer Putnam)
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · June 22, 1932

Quilt, Presentation pattern
Mary Hergenroder Simon · ca. 1849

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929

Four upholstery panels for a settee
Beauvais · 1754–56

Amelia Earhart 'Round The World Flight' envelope signed by Amelia Earhart
Artist not stated in the record · 1937

Armchair (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1937
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 2 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. 7485227 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 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.