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. 16 shown for “Saint Louis Blues” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Flintlock Gun
Louis Jaley · dated 1735

Saint Louis Blues
Artist not stated in the record · 1914

Robert Louis Stevenson
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1887–88; cast 1910

Envelope for the Cathrell Printing Company
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th-mid 20th century

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Admission ticket for Joe Louis Training Camp, St. Louis, Missouri
Pine Street YMCA, American, 1919 - 1955 · ca. 1945

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
Georges Jacob · 1788

Jersey for the St. Louis Cardinals worn by Curt Flood
Artist not stated in the record · 1966

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Vase (one of a pair)
Saint-Cloud factory · ca. 1695–1700

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Pair of candlesticks (part of a set)
Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Le Grenouillard (The Frog Man)
Jean-Joseph Carriès · ca. 1891

Flask with face
Jean-Joseph Carriès · ca. 1890
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. 3630 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 123660 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:31 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.