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 “Barbour, Edmund D.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armrest in the shape of an archaic tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Barbour Calculating Machine Model
Barbour, Edmund D. · 1872

Snuff bottle with design of coins
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Barbour Calculating Machine Model
Barbour, Edmund D. · 1872

Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird
Artist not stated in the record

Barbour Calculating Machine
Barbour, Edmund D. · 1875

Lintel block from the false door of Mery's chapel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2575–2520 BCE

Pilosella caespitosa (Dumort.) P. D. Sell & C. West
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1958

Covered Incense Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Oxalis grandis Small
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/6/97

A Visit to Rome in 1764
Franz Edmund Weirotter · 1764

Oxalis grandis Small
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/6/97

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Kalmia latifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1958

Sceptre
Artist not stated in the record

Eupatorium leucolepis (DC.) Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1943

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · ca. 1824–26

Leandra secunda (D. Don) Cogn.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1978

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories
Samuel Colt · 1861

Miconia thyrsiflora (D. Don) Naudin
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1978

Headdress Frontlet
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

Microtus ochrogaster ochrogaster
Artist not stated in the record

Hinged Snuff Bottles
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Microtus pinetorum auricularis
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1952
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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 686357 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 19:22 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.