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. 16 shown for “Photograph of a family posing in front of a house” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 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.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Photograph of a family posing in front of a house
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Mummy Board of Iineferty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

No. 52
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Photographic print of a woman posing in front of bushes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Framed print of Lew Snowden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

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

Marble grave stele with a family group
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 360 BCE

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648
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. 8751 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. 7485272 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 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.