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 Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 04:09 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 Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

Photograph of Cross of Honor presented to Amelia Earhart
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

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

Invitation to ceremony honoring Amelia Earhart Putnam
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

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

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

'Plaque to Amelia Earhart' and 'Urge Earhart Commemorative' news clippings
Artist not stated in the record · 1952-1962

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1937

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30

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

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Medal presented to Amelia Earhart
Artist not stated in the record · October 5, 1932

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

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

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp newspaper clipping
Artist not stated in the record · March 22, 1963

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

Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1963

Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch

Token commemorating Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Photograph of Wilmer Stultz, Amelia Earhart and Lou Gordon in New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
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. 319 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3268235 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 04:09 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.