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. 17 shown for “Photograph of Maggie Green” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:01 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 Singer in Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1884

Photograph of Maggie Green
Artist not stated in the record · 1896

Dancers, Pink and Green
Edgar Degas · ca. 1890

Fisk Jubilee Singers
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Medinet-Habu
John Beasley Greene · 1854

Cabinet card of Maggie J. Sims
Artist not stated in the record · mid 1870s-mid 1880s

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Photograph of Maggie Hickman in a cap and gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1911-1915
![[The Nile in front of the Theban Hills], by John Beasley Greene](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-17115-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Nile in front of the Theban Hills]
John Beasley Greene · 1853–54

Maggie Mitchell
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

Maggie Mitchell
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

Maggie Mitchell
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

Maggie Mitchell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

Maggie Mitchell
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1860

Maggie Mitchell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

Dogs, racing - 'Ike' - 'Maggie'
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

Dog galloping; white racing hound, Maggie
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886
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. 510 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2949523 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 2026-09-06 04:01 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.