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. 15 shown for “Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864” — 43 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Hayne-Hudjihini
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

The Play-Within-A-Play
Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Stum-ma-nu - A Flathead Boy
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Wa-pel-la: Chief of Musquakees
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Rant Che Wai Me - Female Flying Pigeon
Unidentified Artist · 1838

Mon-ka-ush-ka
Unidentified Artist · 1838

Mar-ko-me-te - A Menomene Brave
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

Spring Frog - A Cherokee Chief
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Chittee Yoholo - A Seminole Chief
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Mistippee
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Se-loc-ta - A Creek Chief
Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1226733 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 16:45 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.