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 print of a Black nurse with two white children” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Photographic print of a Black nurse with two white children
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci

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

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1922

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Photograph of men running with a football in front of two houses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Photographic postcard of a young boy
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Albumen print of a woman and two children in front of a log house in Georgia
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s

Christ Blessing the Children
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Photograph of a Guilford County school bus and school children
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916

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

Photographic postcard of a church congregation
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Cabinet card of two unidentified children by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

Ambrotype of a young woman holding two white children
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

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

Cabinet card of two unidentified children in communion dress by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman and two children by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
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. 1102 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. 3946829 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 06:01 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.