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. 23 shown for “Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia” — 54 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · ca. 1350

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Madonna and Child
Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1370s

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Diptych with Scenes of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, Saint Michael, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, and the Trinity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Nursing woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Tusk
Kongo artist · ca. 1860

Furniture plaque carved in relief with bulls and tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

World War II Patriotic cover
Walter T. Poppenger · November 10, 1942

Openwork furniture plaque with bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953

Openwork furniture plaque with galloping bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Hold Up Your End! War Fund Week
W. B. King, American, 1880–1927 · 1918

Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 1189594 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 01:47 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.