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. 20 shown for “Souvenir booklet on album page” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Souvenir booklet on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1948
Sketchbook: Souvenir of Naples
Unknown Artist · after 1821

Souvenir booklet on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Miniature Drawings for Craftspeople
Katsushika Hokusai · 1829–31

Souvenir booklet on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Notebook with Views of the Excavations at Herculaneum and of Other Italian Cities
Jérôme Charles Bellicard · 1750–51

Title Page of a Lady's Souvenir Album
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–1840

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

A Reference List of British Army Postmarks booklet on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1920

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Stamp Collecting publication, page 47 and 48 on album page
Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861

Stamp Collecting publication, page 51 an 52 on album page
Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

Série des Roses
Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1895

Stamp Collecting publication on album page
Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1955

Série des Roses
Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1895

Post-Civil war souvenir patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · Post 1865

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45
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. 307 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 994642 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 2026-09-01 13:10 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.