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. 18 shown for “Albert Edward Edenshaw” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Raven rattle
Albert Edward Edenshaw · ca. 1850

Louis Albert Gudebrod
Edward Bradstreet, 11 Nov 1878 - 14 Jan 1921 · 1906

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Albert Bierstadt · 1863

Albert Sidney Johnston
Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · 1862

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Albert Sidney Johnston
George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1867

Lemuel Shaw
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Isolepis crassiuscula Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1933 to Jul 1933

Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire
Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80

Edward Southworth
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1850

La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations
Edouard Baldus · 1870s

Elie Nadelman
Albert Edward Sterner, 1863 - 1946 · 1917

Albert Sands Southworth
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1845–50
![[George Edward ?], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-321.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[George Edward ?]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s
![[William Edward Frost], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-097.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[William Edward Frost]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s

William Henry Harrison
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850
![[Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout], by James William Bailey](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP259494.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout]
James William Bailey · 1880s

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763
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. 371 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 203136 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 08:47 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.