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. 23 shown for “Stamp seal (oval conoid) with divine symbols” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stamp seal (oval conoid) with divine symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Pinback Button, "Children’s March for Survival"
Artist not stated in the record · 1972

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene, deity, and divine symbols
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century BCE

4c Malaria Eradcation plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · February 15, 1962

Stamp seal (conoid) with animal and divine symbols
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 8th–6th century BCE

Cloth with inventory stamp
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with deity (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

5c Pocahontas plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1907

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia
Artist not stated in the record · early 1920s

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

3c Washington on Hunter's Express cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1852-1857

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–6th century BCE

Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–6th century BCE

Baltimore and Grafton Railroad Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with deity
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)
Etienne Delaune, French, 1519 - 1583 · ca. 1575

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Photograph of Leroy Kelley
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1920

Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE
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. 60 matched · 24 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. 269819 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:52 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.