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. 17 shown for “United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The New Bonnet
Eastman Johnson · 1876

Views of West Point. Hudson River Scenery.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873-1877

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Cuff links with West Point emblem worn by General Colin L. Powell
United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802 · 1998

Viola
Robert Horne · 1757

Cabinet card of Second Lieutenant Charles Young, 9th Cavalry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy
United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802 · June 1887

George Washington
Giuseppe Ceracchi · 1795

Lever pouch padlock
Artist not stated in the record · 1802

Percussion Target Rifle
Julius Grudchos · ca. 1855–60

Sampler
Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Jar
Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

The Shepherdess of the Alps
Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

George Washington
Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
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. 220 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 6025009 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 14:23 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.