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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. 16 shown for “Presented by the Irish Brigade to Brigadier General T. F. Meagher” — 44 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 13:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Presented by the Irish Brigade to Brigadier General T. F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record
Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
Military Decoration Presented to General T. F. Meagher of the Irish Brigade
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Framed quote from President Abraham Lincoln owned by Gen. Powell
Stu Purviance, American · June 23, 1979
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Women's US Army Service uniform worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Sugarman Uniforms, American · 1980
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Designating Flag, 4th Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
Women's US Army Service jacket worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Sugarman Uniforms, American · 1980
Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 6th Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Designating Flag, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps
William H. Horstmann & Sons · ca 1865
Major Lemuel Montgomery's Pistol
Bellah, J. · ca 1812
Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861
Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps
William F. Scheible · 1865
Women's US Army Service hat worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Sam Bonk Uniform and Civilian Cap Company, American, founded 1963 · 1980
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2724431 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-05 13:16 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.