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. 6 shown for “Sarony & Major” — 6 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Constitution and Guerriere Fought August 19th, 1812: The Guerriere had 15 men killed and 63 wounded. The Constitution had 7 men killed and 7 wounded
Nathaniel Currier · 1848

Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes, at the Tabernacle, Broadway, December 24, 1847
Francis D'Avignon · 1848

Washington Irving's Illustrations of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Designed and Etched by F.O.C. Darley for the Members of the American Art Union, 1850
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1849–50

Washington Irving's Illustrations for the Legend of Rip Van Winkle, Designed and Etched by F.O.C. Darley
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1848

New-York (Union Square, Looking South)
C. Bachman · 1850

United States Military Academy: Song of the Graduates (sheet music cover)
James McNeill Whistler · 1852
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:09 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.