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 “Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chair of Reniseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450 BCE

Photographic postcard of an infant in a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Photographic postcard of an infant
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

Picquigny
Frits Thaulow · 1899

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Photographic postcard of a baby in a stroller
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1930

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Photographic postcard of unidentified child
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 80–100 CE

Photographic postcard featuring an oval portrait of a young child
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Statuette of an ancestral king
Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman seated in a wooden armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

No. 615, The Way the Negro Race is Dying Out: Mrs. Whitaker and her Children
Artist not stated in the record · 1871-1896

Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Cabinet card of an unidentified infant in a christening gown seated in a chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657

Old Negro saving few articles after mob violence. Many went destitute + homeless
Unidentified · 1908
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. 415 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7484508 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-04 01:37 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.