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 young woman with a white baby” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE

Tintype of a young woman with a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Tintype of a young woman with a white child
Unidentified · ca. 1865

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Tintype of a young woman with a white child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Tintype of young woman in striped dress
Artist not stated in the record · Late 1860s

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

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

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

Tintype of a seated young woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875

Terracotta statue of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

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

Tintype of a woman wearing a striped dress with flowers in her hair
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860s

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Carte-de-visite of a Black woman with a white infant in Argentina
Artist not stated in the record · 1895

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

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

Tintype of a woman
John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890 · 1870s
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. 2581 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3906387 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-08 12:32 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.