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. 23 shown for “receipt for package” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tax Receipt for Wine
Artist not stated in the record · 174 BCE

receipt for package
Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1872

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Sandy Spring, MD, REGISTERED handstamp
Artist not stated in the record · January 1, 1909

Dead Christ Supported by Angels
Francesco Trevisani · ca. 1710

Folded letter to the General Post Office from R.M.C., January 1808
Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1808

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Receipt for ten dollars from Lucille Brown
Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · February 28, 1919

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 537 BCE

Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas
Artist not stated in the record · 1955

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–331 BCE

Receipt for "dinners, servants dinners, and horses fed" at the Farmers' Hotel
Artist not stated in the record · September 8, 1819

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for dates
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 517 BCE

Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook
Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1813

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for garments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 498 BCE

Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1811

The Companions of Rinaldo
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1633

Receipt for payment for a recording session signed by Ray Charles
Swing Time Records, American, 1947 - 1953 · November 24, 1950

Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Receipt signed by Fats Waller
Unidentified · March 1, 1937
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a receipt for silver
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–486 BCE

Letter
Artist not stated in the record · March 20, 1849

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 557 BCE
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. 979 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 432018 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 21:24 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.