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 “Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Tintype of a woman wearing a white hat and holding a book
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Tintype of a woman wearing a dress with hat and bag
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Tintype photograph of a man identified as James Turner, with two women
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Tintype of an woman wearing a hat
Unidentified · 1860s

Terracotta statuette of a woman wearing a hat and holding a fan
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Photograph of three women standing behind a seated man
Artist not stated in the record · 1884 - 1898

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Tintype of Emmaline
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Tintype of two men wearing suits
Unidentified · 1855-1860s

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Morning Dress
Ackermann’s, London, England · 1819

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Walking Dress
Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1819

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Matted tintype of Bachus
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Photograph of Dr. Townsend with three individuals
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1925
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. 433 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4067701 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 02:37 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.