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 “Pocket book” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Pocket Book
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pocket book
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Pocket Book
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pocket book
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1856

Pocket book
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Hiding of Moses, from "Remember Me!, or a Pocket Companion"
William Blake · 1825

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pocket-Books
Kubo Shunman · 19th century

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Western Pocket Watch From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3
Utagawa Hiroshige · dated 1823

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Pocket Model Colt Revolver
Artist not stated in the record · 1848

Letter case
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz · 1628

Patent Model for Circular Slide Rule Invented by John W. Nystrom
Nystrom, John William · before 1851

L'ami des voyageurs, ou, Etrennes instructives, curieuses et nécessaires à toutes les personnes qui voyagent, soit à pied, à cheval, en voiture, ou par eau : soit par les voitures publiques, etc. etc.
Marcilly · ca. 1820

You'll Find Old Dixieland in France
Artist not stated in the record · 1918

Colt Model 1849 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 81015
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Wounded Buffalo, Strewing His Blood over the Prairies
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1833

Scholars of the Liuli Hall
Unidentified artist · late 13th century

The Believer’s Pocket Companion
Artist not stated in the record · 1853

Miniature Qur'an and Qur'an Case
Muhammad Al-Qari · dated 963 AH/1555 CE
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 25688 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:49 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.