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 “Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Travel pass for Surveyor William Goddard
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1776

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775
Bernard Romans · ca. 1775

William Goddard portrait
Artist not stated in the record · unknown

The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy
Jean Le Noir · before 1349

Publication of William Goddard's plan in the Essex Gazette newspaper
Artist not stated in the record · March 15-22, 1774

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

William Goddard's petition to the Continental Congress
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1774

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Nathan Crocker and William Goddard
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Mud wagon-style stagecoach model
Artist not stated in the record · 1868-1890s

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Poa howellii Vasey & Scribn.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1956

A column of oriental travelers scattered by a dust storm
William West · 1820–40

Patent Model of a Sheet Perfecting Flatbed Cylinder Press
Kerr, William A. · ca 1870

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864
Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864

Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie)
Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) · 1876

Festuca myuros var. hirsuta (Hack.) Asch. & Graebn.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1956

Portrait of a Young Man
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · 1480s

Deschampsia bolanderi (Thurb.) Saarela
Artist not stated in the record · May 1893 to 16 May 1955

Christ Asleep during the Tempest
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853

Pan American Airways travel documents
Artist not stated in the record · April 6, 1944
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. 36 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. 721093 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-31 21:30 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.