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. 12 shown for “Photograph of mail collection wagons” — 24 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Armor of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half of the 19th century

Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1468–96

Cuirass (Char-aina) with Mail Shirt
Artist not stated in the record · cuirass, 17th–early 18th century; mail shirt, 18th–19th century

Picquigny
Frits Thaulow · 1899

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

Portions of a Jousting Half Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500 and later

Armored Cavalryman
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant
Alfred Sisley · 1876
![[Detachment of 50th N.Y. Volunteer Engineers, Pontoon Wagon and Saddle Boat], by Timothy H. O'Sullivan](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP274822.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Detachment of 50th N.Y. Volunteer Engineers, Pontoon Wagon and Saddle Boat]
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · ca. 1864

Mormon Emigrant Train, Echo Canyon
Charles William Carter · ca. 1870
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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 03:16 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.