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. 12 shown for “Tilia americana L.” — 24 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

A South West View of the City of New York, in North America
Pierre Charles Canot · ca. 1768

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Battle of Vigo Bay, 1702
Johann Gottlieb Lauffer · 1702

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Altar to the Sun Warrior
Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Turtle Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Mortar in the form of a feline
Artist not stated in the record · 700–400 BCE

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Portrait of John Paul Jones, after medal by Dupré
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1878

Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810
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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 17:52 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.