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 “Ames, Chauncey W.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Covered Jar (Albarello)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Patent model for printers' quoins
Ames, Chauncey W. · ca 1873

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Chauncey Mitchell Depew
George Burroughs Torrey, 8 Mar 1863 - 14 Apr 1942 · 1921

Daniel Webster
Thomas Ball · 1853

Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947 · 1891

Henry Clay
Thomas Ball · 1858

Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929 · 1905

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Fredricks Knickerbocker Studio · c. 1888

Sir John Herschel
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1867

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Nyssa ogeche W. Bartram ex Marshall
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1987

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Elizur or Chauncey Goodrich
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

Ritual grain container (fu)
Artist not stated in the record · 1321

Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Epinette des Vosges
Amant Constant (Amé) Lambert · late 19th century

Charles Chauncey
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Wedding shoes
Esté · 1840–49

Chauncey Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home
Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935 · 1898
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. 620 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 922790 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 23:04 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.