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. 9 shown for “William Ignatius Blemly” — 51 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, calling cards, sketches, photographs of paintings, and two sales catalogs of Harnett's (William Michael Harnett, 1848–1892) work
William Ignatius Blemly

Dominic Ignatius Murphy
William H. Bell, 1830 - 28 Jan 1910 · c. 1880

Ignatius Sancho
Francesco Bartolozzi · 1802

Kneeling Figure of St. Ignatius Loyola
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

Title Page, "Sancho's Letters, with Memoirs of his Life," by Joseph Jekyll, Esq., M.P.
Francesco Bartolozzi · December 20, 1802

St. Ignatius Loyola from St. Peter's colonnade
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Commemorating the two Jesuit Saints: Ignatius Loyola (Founder), and Francis Xavier (1506–1552) (greatest missionary)
Artist not stated in the record · 1677

Pair-case watch
Daniel Delander · ca. 1715–19

Christ in Glory with Saint Lawrence, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and Saint Eligius.
Ubaldo Gandolfi · ca. 1766
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263090 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:32 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.