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. 21 shown for “Poster for the film Space is the Place” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 04:38 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 Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Poster for the film Space is the Place
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1974

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Space is the Place
North American Star System Production, American · 1974

The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490

Poster for The Crimson Skull
Norman Studios, American, 1920 - 1928 · 1922

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Three-sheet film poster for The Bull Dogger
Artist not stated in the record · 1922

At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882

Poster for Dark Manhattan
Artist not stated in the record · 1937

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Poster for Harlem on the Prairie
Toddy Pictures Company, American, 1941 - 1970s · 1937

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Film poster for Gang Smashers
Artist not stated in the record · 1938

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Poster for The Devil's Daughter
Artist not stated in the record · 1939

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
Daniël Mijtens · 1629

Poster for Ebony Parade
Artist not stated in the record · 1947

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
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. 849 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7253063 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 04:38 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.