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. 11 shown for “The Loyal Protestant and The Domestick Intelligence newspaper” — 41 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:01 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 Loyal Protestant and The Domestick Intelligence newspaper
Artist not stated in the record · April 2, 1681

David Glasgow Farragut
William Swain, 27 Dec 1803 - Feb 1847 · 1838

Postal rates and regulations form letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1838

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

New England Loyal Publication Society No. 147
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

He Will Be Gulliver in the Hands of the Brobdingnagians
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · September 18, 1880

Secretary of War Investigating the Indian Bureau
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · January 26, 1878

Joseph Prescott and Benjamin Russell
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle
Artist not stated in the record · September 1925

Stampede Among the Negroes in Virginia
Unidentified Artist · 1861

The Widow's Wants
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · September 11, 1880
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1899006 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 2026-09-04 22:01 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.