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. 21 shown for “Tom Story” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
James Gillray · December 10, 1792

Story Little Gee Bee
Tom Story · 1947
![[Five Members of the Wild Bunch?], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP362655.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Five Members of the Wild Bunch?]
Unknown · ca. 1892

Tom Loftin Johnson
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

A partly naked woman seated by a stream; page 32 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1812–20

Tom Loftin Johnson
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

Saber with Scabbard and Belt Hook (清 腰刀)
Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th century

Tom Sayers
George Newbold, active 1860s · 1860

Lady Godina's Rout:–or– Peeping-Tom spying out Pope Joan, vide Fashionable Modesty
James Gillray · March 12, 1796

Tom Molineaux
Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814 · 1812

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Songs, Sketch of the Life of Blind Tom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876

Job Reproved by His Friends
James Barry · dated 1777; issued ca. 1790

Tom Molineaux
John Young, 1755 - 1825 · c. 1810

The Conversion of Polemon
James Barry · 1778–90

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Broadside
Seer, A. S.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

The Close of the Battle or the Champion Triumphant
Unidentified · October 3, 1811

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter
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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 9002 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 21:43 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.