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. 18 shown for “The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 07:04 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 Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Frontispiece to "The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs"
Unidentified Artist · 1875

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Handbill for a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

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

Carte-de-visite of the Jubilee Singers
American Missionary Association, American, 1846 - 1999 · 1872; printed later

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
American Missionary Association, American, 1846 - 1999 · 1872

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98
Coliseum grand march composed by Adolph Schmidt
Schmidt, Adolph · 1872

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Paddle Doll
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1802 B.C.

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Cleopatra
William Wetmore Story · 1858, carved 1869
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. 2031 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. 3014674 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 07:04 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.