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. 10 shown for “Sermon preached at Haverhill in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell” — 41 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Sermon preached at Haverhill in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell
Artist not stated in the record

A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of the Meeting-House of the First Presbyterian Congregation in Cazenovia
Artist not stated in the record

Mr. Brown's Thanksgiving Sermon
Artist not stated in the record

The elevation of an altar with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

In Remembrance of Daniel Chester French
Unidentified · 1932

Christ Preaching (The Hundred Guilder Print)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1649

Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Late Reverend Thomas Spencer of Liverpool
Artist not stated in the record

Haverhill, Massachusetts Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · August 4, 1837
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484724 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 2026-09-06 16:58 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.