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 “Token of John Adams” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Percussion Longrifle
John Settel · ca. 1835–1840

President John Quincy Adams
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1837

Token of John Adams
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

Logan, Ohio Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Token of John Quincy Adams
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

Boston & Portland P.S. Packet Company Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Trade token
Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942

John Adams
James Sharples · ca.1796

Omaha, Nebraska Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

John Quincy Adams Ward
Henry Augustus Loop · 1863

Rock Island, Illinois Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · May 9, 1895

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Trade token
Mike E. Kirk, Non-Indian, 1890-1942 and Kirk Brothers

Abigail Smith Adams
James Sharples · ca.1796

Trade token
Artist not stated in the record
![[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], by John Adams Whipple](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT2537.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat]
John Adams Whipple · early 1850s

Trade token
Artist not stated in the record

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918)
Anders Zorn · ca. 1900

Trade token
Artist not stated in the record

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Trade token
Artist not stated in the record

William Tilden Blodgett
John Quincy Adams Ward · 1865

Trade token
Artist not stated in the record
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. 798 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2996547 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-01 21:08 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.