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 Small” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Group of 15 Early Stereograph Views of Cambridge, England and the Surrounding Area], by Thomas Small](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP72796.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 15 Early Stereograph Views of Cambridge, England and the Surrounding Area]
Thomas Small · 1860s–80s

Erythrodiplax umbrata
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

Erythrodiplax umbrata
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Lestes forficula
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1997
![[Group of 16 Early Stereograph Views of British Abbeys], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP72746.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 16 Early Stereograph Views of British Abbeys]
Unknown · 1850s–60s

Populus deltoides W. Bartram ex Marshall
Artist not stated in the record

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

Handbill advertising a punch card event at A.M.E. Zion Church Stony Brook
Unidentified · 1884

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Drypetes chevalieri Beille ex Hutch. & Dalziel
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1985

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1986

Thomas Jefferson
John Trumbull · 1788
Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1987 to 4 May 1987

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80
Drypetes similis Hutch. in Dyer
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1985 to 21 Apr 1985
Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400
Drypetes ivorensis Hutch. & Dalziel
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986

Small Sallet (Celatina)
Missaglia workshop · ca. 1450
Margaritaria discoidea (Baill.) G.L. Webster
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986

Coffeepot
François Thomas Germain · 1757
Mareya micrantha (Benth.) Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1986
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. 893 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 195312 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 2026-09-05 00:10 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.