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 “Thomas Day” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Game Table
Thomas Day · ca. 1850

Side chair by Thomas Day
Thomas Day, American, 1801 - 1861 · ca. 1850

The grammar of ornament
Owen Jones · 1856

Joseph Galloway
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1775

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks
Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833 · 1825

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1826

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
Artist not stated in the record · 1944

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

L'Heure du Midi, from a set of the hours of the day
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

Soprano Recorder in B
Thomas Coenraet Boekhout · ca. 1700

L'Heure du Matin, from a set of the hours of the day
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1879

Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Portrait of Mrs. Richard Day
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (1903)

Eccleston Medal
Thomas Webb · 1805

Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
Artist not stated in the record · 1944

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)
Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Le Temps De La Soirée, from a set of the hours of the day
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738

A Musician and His Daughter
Thomas de Keyser · 1629

Le Temps de L'Après-dîné, from a set of the hours of the day
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1738
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. 655 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 129326 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.