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. 24 shown for “Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force” — 39 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Suit, Flying,1930 Pattern, Royal Air Force
Artist not stated in the record

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Suit, Flying, United States Air Force Thunderbirds
Gibson & Barnes Inc. · 2006-2007

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Westland Lysander IIIa
Westland Aircraft Limited · 1942

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Kittyhawk IA)
Curtiss Aircraft Company · 1939

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Amelia Earhart's flight suit
Arnold, Constable & Company · c. 1928

Tupu
Artist not stated in the record · Before 17th century

Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore
Macchi S.A.

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810
North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang
North American Aviation Inc. · 1945

The Crucifixion
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1675

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC
Hawker Aircraft Ltd. · 1944

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson · 1964

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Schweizer SGU 2-22EK
Schweizer Aircraft Corporation · 1946-1966

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Dayton-Wright DH-4
Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. · 1917-1918

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ciel "La Cucaracha"
Artist not stated in the record · 1935
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 · 2 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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:29 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.