Images / art

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 “Anthony, Edward 1819-1888” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo

Anthony van Dyck · 1624

Public domainThe Met

Portrait of James Alfred Pearce (1805-1862)

Anthony, Edward 1819-1888 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met

Portrait of William Hayden English (1822-1896)

Anthony, Edward 1819-1888 · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Broadway in the Rain, likely taken from 308 or 310 Broadway, New York City]

Edward Anthony · ca. 1860s

Public domainThe Met

Edward Anthony

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Tall Clock

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met

Edward Anthony

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Broadway on a Rainy Day

Edward Anthony · 1859

Public domainThe Met

Edward Anthony

Nicolaas Henneman, 1813 - 1898? · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Broadway with horse-drawn carriages]

Edward Anthony · ca. 1860s

Public domainThe Met

Edmund Ruffin

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Return of the Japanese Embassy from City Hall

Edward Anthony · 1860

Public domainThe Met

Albert Sidney Johnston

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Embassy Leave the Metropolitan for the City Hall, the Seventh Regiment Form a Hollow Square With the Carriages of the Embassy in the Middle

Edward Anthony · 1860

Public domainThe Met

Mrs. Jerusha Wilcox Sturgis

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Populace Begin to Gather in Front of the City Hall to Witness the Arrival of the Embassy on Their Visit to the Governor and Mayor

Edward Anthony · 1860

Public domainThe Met

Niagara in Winter: Terrapin Tower and Horseshoe Falls

E. and H. T. Anthony and Co., 1852-1901 · 1863-1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Scene in the Fortifications at Camp Essex, Maryland

Unknown · 1861

Public domainThe Met

The Artistic Series: The Kauterskill Fall, 180 feet High, Catskill Mountains

E. and H. T. Anthony and Co., 1852-1901 · 1863-1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Stereographic View of Statue of Simon Bolivar by R. de la Cora, Central Park, New York]

Edward Anthony · 1884–98

Public domainThe Met

Composite Group Portrait of Touring Lecturers for the American Literary Bureau

American Literary Bureau · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861

Edward Anthony · April 1861

Public domainThe Met

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

What was queried

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. 184 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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 1 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 2026-09-02 10:23 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.