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. 22 shown for “Standing civil official” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy
Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

Female figure with raised arm
Tellem blacksmith · 15th–16th century

The Officers of the C.S. Army & Navy
C. F. May, 1800 - 1900? · c. 1861-65
Standing Official
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to-late 6th century

Confederate Political Leaders and Generals
Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879 · c. 1861-65

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Enemies of our Union
Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899 · 1862

Tomb guardian in form of a civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Nine Confederate generals
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Officers of Our Army, 1861
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

Standing male worshiper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2600 BCE

Absentee ballot request postcard
Artist not stated in the record · July 25, 1944

Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Rattle
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Lincoln and his Lieutenants
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1911

Plaque with Court Official Holding a Protective Amulet
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Winfield Scott and Generals
H. B. Hall · 1866

Figure of a king as part of a group proffered by an official of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Study for "Education," "The Progress of Civilization: The Forge, Commerce, and Education," State Capitol, Des Moines, IA
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1905–1906

Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Civil official
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of 8th century
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. 666 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 50673 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:28 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.