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 “Willets' Map of the State of New York” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Willets' Map of the State of New York
Artist not stated in the record

Flintlock Longrifle
George Schreyer, Sr. · ca. 1795

A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902

A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698

A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan
John Lloyd Stephens · 1843

A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Sword and Scabbard Presented to Captain Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861)
John Targee · 1815

John H. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 94421
Smith & Wesson · 1892–93

John H. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Enallagma aspersum
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1976

S. P. Avery, Engraver on Wood
Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. · 1800s

Enallagma hageni
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1976

Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1888

Enallagma hageni
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1976

Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1760

Enallagma hageni
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1976
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. 38267 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. 6470560 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 07:08 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.