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. 22 shown for “Thomas Thompson, Jr.” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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Thomas Thompson, Jr. · ca. 1759

Thomas Weston Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

Spring
Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Thomas Thompson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

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

Dalea greggii A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/3/28

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1854

View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken
Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Thomas Ewing Jr.
Addis & Noel's · c. 1863

A Rose
Thomas Anshutz · 1907

Thomas Mendenhall, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

The Titan's Goblet
Thomas Cole · 1833

The Tammany King-dom/ The Tammany Ring-dom
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · October 29, 1870

Vase
Thomas J. Wheatley · 1879

Thomas Newton, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

The U. S. Ship Franklin, with a View of the Bay of New York
Thomas Thompson · 1820s or 1830s

Where there is an Evil
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · November 8, 1873

Queen Victoria
Thomas Sully · 1838

Thomas Butler
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

Untitled
Unrecorded Edgefield District potter · ca. 1850

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80
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. 878 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. 269687 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:55 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.