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. 23 shown for “United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stand
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1825–50
Shakers, Their Mode of Worship by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

Candle Stand
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1800–1840

The Incredulity of St. Thomas by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1840

Rocking Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1823

Revolving Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1840–70

Calvario
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900

Blanket Chest
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1835–75

Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · 17th century

Spool Stand
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1830–50

Emery Chamberlain's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Certificate by Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company · ca 1867

Candlestick
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–60

The Believer’s Pocket Companion
Artist not stated in the record · 1853

Bedstead
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1830–60

Noli me Tangere (Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen), from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · 1509–11

Sewing steps
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · ca. 1842

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen
Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, ca. 1494–1533 · 1519

Side Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1830–50
5 Dollars, Kirtland Safety Society Bank, Ohio, United States, 1837
Artist not stated in the record · 1837-02-10

Work Table
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50

Christ Appearing to Mary
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · ca. 1885

Candle Stand
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1800–1830
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. 411 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7483532 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:45 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.