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. 18 shown for “Attila rufus rufus” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Molly Wales Fobes
Rufus Hathaway · 1790

Attila rufus rufus
Artist not stated in the record

Rufus Choate
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Attila rufus rufus
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1940
![[Dog Posing for Portrait in Photographer's Studio Chair], by Rufus Anson](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP120344.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Dog Posing for Portrait in Photographer's Studio Chair]
Rufus Anson · ca. 1855

Candlestick
Rufus Dunham · 1837–60

Attila rufus
Artist not stated in the record

Attila rufus
Artist not stated in the record

Tea Spoon
Rufus Farnam · ca. 1805

Attila rufus hellmayri
Artist not stated in the record

Flagon
Rufus Dunham · ca. 1837–60

Attila rufus hellmayri
Artist not stated in the record

Flagon
Rufus Farnam · 1800–1830
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: E.A. Jones Arm Lock Bed Springs, Sturgis, Michigan], by Frank Rufus Barrows](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-015.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: E.A. Jones Arm Lock Bed Springs, Sturgis, Michigan]
Frank Rufus Barrows · 1880s–1890s

Attila rufus
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Oct 1937

Silhouette of a man facing left
Rufus K. Cummings · 1843
Furnarius rufus rufus
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1921

Silhouette of a woman facing right
Rufus K. Cummings · 1843
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. 72 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 6716 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 21:45 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.