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 “William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Harper's Weekly -- Assassination of William McKinley
William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · published September 21, 1901

The Battle of Vercellae
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

"Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government," Harper's Weekly
William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · August 27, 1898

The Capture of Carthage
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

The West Point Outrage-The Court of Inquiry in Session
William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · 1880

Man Weighing Gold
Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1515–20

James A. Garfield
William Allen Rogers, 1854 - 1931 · 1881

The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Portrait of William Barton Rogers (1804-1882)
Allen, E. L (Edward L.) · 1866

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Manihot tripartita subsp. xavantinensis (D.J. Rogers & Appan) Allen
Artist not stated in the record

Christ with a Staff
Rembrandt

Manihot tripartita subsp. xavantinensis (D.J. Rogers & Appan) Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1978

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890
Unidentified Artist · 1890

Madonna Adoring the Child
Bartolomeo Montagna (Bartolomeo Cincani)

Manihot xavantinensis D.J. Rogers & Appan
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1943

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1854

Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1655–60

Peacock, peonies and pine
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Manihot xavantinensis D.J. Rogers & Appan
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1968
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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 376231 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-09 21:43 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.