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 “Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:47 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 Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Envelope for The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4
Unidentified · 1956-1957

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

The Nation's Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4
Zion Baptist Church, American, founded 1842 · 1956-1957

Madonna and Child
Segna di Buonaventura · ca. 1320
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

Saint Benedict
Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

Saint Silvester Gozzolini
Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist
Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini · ca. 1523

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Madonna Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel
Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo) · early 1490s

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
Artist not stated in the record · September 1963

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church
Unidentified · 1915-1920

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
Unidentified · April 9, 1968

Processional Cross
Northern Highlands artist · 14th–15th century

Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950 · 1973
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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1048147 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-06 13:47 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.