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 Doney, active mid 19th century” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 05:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prie-dieu
Stammer & Breul · 1855

Edward Allen Hannegan
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Silas Wright
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

Daniel Stevens Dickinson
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

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

Andrew Jackson
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · late 19th-early 20th century

Jar
Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1860

Mary, Queen of Scots, and her secretary, Chatelard (frontispiece, from "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine," volume 5)
Thomas Doney · 1846

United States Senate Chamber
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

Armor (Gusoku)
Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Distinguished Americans
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1854

Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Armor for Man and Horse Presumably Made for Baron Pankraz von Freyberg (1508–1565)
Wolfgang Grosschedel · man's armor, ca. 1535–40; horse armor, dated 1554; saddle steels, later restorations

Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

The Christiana Tragedy
John Osler, active mid 19th century · 1872

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

Tustennuggee Emathla or Jim Boy - A Creek Chief
Unidentified Artist · 1838

Saints Matthias and Thomas
Bartolomeo Bulgarini · ca. 1370–75

Ne-o-mon-ne - An Ioway Chief
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838
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. 720 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. 187081 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-09 05:14 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.