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. 15 shown for “Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Photographic print of men and women in front of Vernon AME Church, Tulsa
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919

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

Photograph of a man and woman in front of car
Unidentified · ca. 1921

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 print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car
Unidentified · 1926

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
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. 176 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7484886 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:37 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.