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. 13 shown for “Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.” — 52 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Poster for Murder on Lenox Ave.
Artist not stated in the record · 1941
![[Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP274835.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold]
Unknown · April 20, 1865

Poster reading "Jail Darren Wilson 4 Murder" used at Baltimore protests
Peoples Power Assemblies, American · April 2015

Poster in support Joan Little
Joanne Little Defense Fund, Inc., American, founded 1974 · 1974-1975

Wanted poster for the DeAutremonts
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1927

Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense
Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982 · 1968

Black and white poster of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982 · ca. 1971

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard
Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard
Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

Handbill advertising a Brotherhood Rally featuring T.R.M. Howard
Harvard Society for Minority Rights, American, 1950 - 1959 · February 16, 1956

M is for Mississippi and Murder
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955

M is for Mississippi and Murder
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1848958 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 10:34 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.