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. 24 shown for “Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Collection Julien Gréau: verrerie antique, emaillerie et poterie appartenent à M. J. Pierpont Morgan
Wilhelm Froehner · 1903

Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

Morte d'Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory · 1893

Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907

Tall clock
John Townsend · 1789

Print of Rev. J. H. Hillsman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1904

Drop-leaf Pembroke Table
John Townsend · ca. 1795

Print of Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D.
Unidentified · July 1909

Drop-leaf dining table
John Townsend · 1756

Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Card table
John Townsend · ca. 1786

Envelope addressed to Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Townsend
Unidentified · April 10, 1925

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair
Artist not stated in the record · mid 1890s-1910

Untitled
Thomas Rowlandson · 1822

Photographic print of Lewis Garner
Artist not stated in the record · late 1880s

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Willa Ann Hadley Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · March 30, 1916

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1895

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Cabinet card of Laura Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1899

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Advertisement card for Rev. F. M. J. Mashaw
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910
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. 8025 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 4431253 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 08:01 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.