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 “Arthur Wesley Dow” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Linen Press
Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony · ca. 1904

Arthur Wesley Dow
Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934 · c. 1895-98

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Raven
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Barberries
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"
Arthur Wesley Dow · 1916

Ipswich Prints: Ancient textile pattern, Japanese
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Chrysanthemum
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Lily
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"
Arthur Wesley Dow · 1916

Ipswich Prints: Nara brocades
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Clover
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Poppy
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Ink sketch
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Color scheme from Hiroshige, No. 1
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

Nabby's Point
Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Ipswich Prints: Fish leaping a waterfall
Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902
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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 52698 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 08:20 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.