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 “World War II letter from President Harry S. Truman to Robert S. Jennings” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 11:01 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 Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

World War II letter from President Harry S. Truman to Robert S. Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510

Rock from Robert S. Jennings WW II posting with 56th Aviation Squadron
Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991 · October 10, 1942

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Army Air Forces Certificate of Appreciation for War Services
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

World War II Honorable Discharge information sheet issued to Robert S. Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · 1946

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Rock commemorating basic training at Fort McClellan during World War II
Robert Sydnor Jennings, American, 1913 - 1991 · September 1, 1942

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Letter to Frances Albrier from Harry S. Truman with envelope
President Harry S. Truman, American, 1884 - 1972 · September 12, 1957

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

World War II Army Good Conduct Medal awarded to Robert S. Jennings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

US Navy postal officer’s album page 38
Artist not stated in the record · 1945

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Letter from General Richard C. Sanders to former Army Air Forces team
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Vmail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · August 16, 1945

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

V-mail letter sheet for PO Box 1663
Artist not stated in the record · June 12, 1944

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968

World War II Patriotic cover
Harry Ioor · November 23, 1944
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. 138 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1996444 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-10 11:01 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.