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 “United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1680

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Wentworth House
Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Armchair
Thomas Affleck · ca. 1766

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–66, remodeled 1769–71

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Helmet (Spangenhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

United States National Museum, Third Floor Construction
Artist not stated in the record · 1908
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. 391 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 6082718 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 11:33 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.