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 “Prisoner” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 16:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Stage Design, Prison Interior
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Prisoner jar
Artist not stated in the record · 200–800 CE

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Prisoners from the Front
Winslow Homer · 1866

Union Prisoner-of-War Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Relief fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Union prisoner of war cover
Artist not stated in the record · May 12, 1865

Tile fragment with a head of a prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Union prisoner of war cover
Artist not stated in the record · Oct. 26, 1864

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1290 BCE

Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace
Artist not stated in the record · after 1972

Wooden block with bound prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

A Visit to the Alexandrofski Prison
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1889

Figure imprisoned by a restraint
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Stage Design, Prison Interior with the Death of Socrates
Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Prisoner Before Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Turkoman Prisoner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Prisoner Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE–3rd century 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. 1118 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. 1634 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 2026-09-05 16:33 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.