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 “Anne Seymour Damer” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shock Dog (nickname for a dog of the Maltese breed)
Anne Seymour Damer · probably 1782
Sporobolus helvolus (Trin.) Durand & Schinz
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/10/68

Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus
workshop of Guido Durantino · ca. 1550–70

Aristida hordeacea Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/10/68

Story of Golden Locks
Seymour Joseph Guy · ca. 1870

Microsorum heterocarpum (Blume) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1976

Studies of a Standing Woman Holding a Spindle and a Woman’s Head in Profile to the Right
Antoine Watteau · ca. 1714–18

Erigeron coulteri Porter in Porter & J.M. Coult.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1888

Portrait of a Horseman
James Seymour

Pinback button for Project Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor
George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack
Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829 · January 22, 1785

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling
Unidentified Artist · 1848

The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, by F. Palmer, No. 1
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847

Horatio Seymour
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Baptist Mariners Chapel, New York
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · ca. 1848

Horatio Seymour
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Flower Tokens
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847–49

Horatio Seymour
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Richmond Seminary, Staten Island, N.Y.
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847–48

Horatio Seymour
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

New England Hotel, Broadway, Adjoining Trinity Church Yard, New York
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · ca. 1848

Horatio Seymour
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 66 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 24429 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.