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 “Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018” — 59 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Flintlock Pistols Made for Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia (1779–1831)
Tula Arms Factory · ca. 1801

T-shirt from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign
Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

Bottle in the shape of a dog
Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Pinback button for Stacey Abrams gubernatorial campaign
Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle
Paracas artist(s) · 800–400 BCE

Navy baseball cap from the 2018 Stacey Abrams Georgia gubernatorial campaign
Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018 · 2018

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Dress worn by Stacey Abrams on election night 2018
Tahari Arthur S. Levine, American, founded 2001 · 2018

Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier standing at ease
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 3rd century BCE

Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2090 BCE

Kneeling bearded figure
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Nose Ornament with Shrimp
Artist not stated in the record · 500-800 CE

Four-Cornered Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 500–900 CE

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene
Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 1177723 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 2026-09-04 21:46 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.