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. 12 shown for “Aaron Willard Jr.” — 24 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Banjo Clock
Aaron Willard Jr. · ca. 1825

Tall Clock
John Doggett · ca. 1825

Banjo Clock
Aaron Willard Jr. · 1815–25

Aaron Willard of Boston
Auguste Edouart · 1844

Wall Clock
Aaron Willard · 1772–82

Shelf Clock
Aaron Willard · ca. 1795

Jubal and Miriam
William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Flintlock Rifle with Case and Bullet Mould Made for Colonel Jacob Bates (1746–1836)
Silas Allen Jr. · ca. 1820

Chalice rim fragment with palm fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Chalice rim fragment with floral chain and scene of man in papyrus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Relief chalice rim fragment with a wedjat frieze and below that a Hathor sistrum head emerging from papyrus plants (joined with 2010.9)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Mrs. Marinus Willett and Her Son Marinus, Jr.
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1802
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. 153 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:00 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.