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 “R. J. Langston” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1885–1903)
Luigi Palma di Cesnola · 1885–1904

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Rochester For Clothing, Garrettsville, Ohio], by R. J. Langston](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-359.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Rochester For Clothing, Garrettsville, Ohio]
R. J. Langston · 1880s–1890s

Eriogonum annuum Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 2015

Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Vase
T.J. Wheatley and Company · 1880

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–745 BCE

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Figured flask
J. R. Robinson and Sons · 1830–35

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Banquet Scene with Musicians, Tomb of Nakht
Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1914; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Armchair
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara
Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record

Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Agaricia agaricites
Artist not stated in the record
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. 5843 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1997181 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-08 19:39 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.