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 “A. Hoen & Co.” — 47 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Frank M. Mayo bust portrait published by A. Hoen & Co.
A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890
4 polkas for the piano forte A. Wallerstein
Wallerstein, A (Anton) 1813-1892 · 185u

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Mary Anderson
A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Newark Institute Hall!
A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Garfield Memorial University
A. Hoen & Co. · 1882

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Valley of Kah-Wee-Ya River (Four Creeks)
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Plain Between Kah-Wee-Ya and Kings Rivers
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Plain between the San Joaquin and King's Rivers
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin: Leading from the Tejon Pass
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

Water Line and Shores of the Ancient Lake (Colorado Desert)
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1890

View of Sangre De Cristo Pass: Looking Northeast from Camp North of Summit, August 11
Tucker, Beverley · 1855
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 25 matched · 25 examined · 9 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 2026-09-02 08:12 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.