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. 21 shown for “Anson Dickinson” — 49 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Gentleman
Anson Dickinson · 1838

Julius White
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1820

Portrait of a Gentleman
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1814

John Gadsby, Jr.
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1829

John Henry Adam
Anson Dickinson · 1835

Gilbert Stuart
Unidentified Artist · 1825?

Mrs. George Burroughs (Mary Fullerton)
Anson Dickinson · 1825–30

Robert Broome
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1810

Edward Livingston
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1827

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

Dr. Valentine Mott
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1820

Charles Francis Adams
Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · 1827

Mrs. Robert Watts (Matilda Ridley)
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1810

William Wirt
Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · c. 1831-33

J. W. Gale
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1807

Anson Greene Phelps
Samuel Lovett Waldo, 6 Apr 1783 - 16 Feb 1861 · 1854

William Burrows
Anson Dickinson · ca. 1807–13

Anson Phelps Stokes
Julius Rolshoven, 1858 - 1930 · c. 1900

Anson Burlingame
McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

Polytrichum juniperinum Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1901
Dendroica dominica dominica
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1939
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1938 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.