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. 23 shown for “Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915” — 54 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Frieze
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1896–1915

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Sidewall
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1888–96

Trellis
William Morris · 1864

Ceiling paper
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1890

Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Border
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1890–95

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)
Edgar Degas · 1873

Frieze
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Ceiling paper
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Ceiling paper
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Frieze
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

Portrait of a Young Woman
Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo) · ca. 1490–1500

Frieze
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1650

Sidewall
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1905–1915

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Sidewall
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 1900

Sidewall and frieze
Pittsburg W.P. Co., 1896 – 1915 · 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 122 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 10:57 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.