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 “The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 22:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9
Artist not stated in the record · February 25, 1837

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 8
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · February 23, 1855

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 26
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 27, 1845

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 22
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · May 29, 1857

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 23
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 5, 1857

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 20
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · May 16, 1845

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 6
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · February 8, 1856

Goblet
Gorham Manufacturing Company · ca. 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · November 23, 1855

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 11
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · March 13, 1857

The True Peace Commissioners
Currier & Ives · 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 27, 1856

Thomas Sully
John Neagle · 1831

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 25
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 19, 1857

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

The Liberator, Vol. XXIV, No. 16
The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · April 21, 1854
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. 102 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. 1607089 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-08 22:30 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.