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 “Benjamin Henry Latrobe” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 12:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

Benjamin Latrobe
Charles Frederick Von Breda, 16 Aug 1759 - 1 Dec 1818 · c. 1790

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.
Thomas Birch, born Warwickshire, England 1779-died Philadelphia, PA 1851 · ca. 1819

View on the New Turnpike Road, on the Margin of the Juniata, with a Distant View of the Warrior Mountain
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · 1820

Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin
Frank William Wilkin, 1791 - 1842 · c. 1820

View from the Packet Wharf at Frenchtown Looking down Elk Creek
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · 1806

Benjamin Lay
Henry Dawkins, active 1753 - 1786 · c. 1760

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Henry Ward Beecher
Benjamin Joseph Falk, 14 Oct 1853 - 19 Mar 1925 · c. 1875

Dining Room and Stage Offices at White Sulphur Springs
John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe · 1832

Henry B. Nones
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Water Works/ Philadelphia / JACKSONS WARRANTED
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1833

Henry B. Nones
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin
Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere · 1780–85

Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Dexter Maxham, 10 Oct 1821 - 9 Jul 1899 · 1856

Side Chair
John Finlay · 1815–20

Benjamin Harrison
William Henry Potter, c. 1841 - ? · 1888

VIEW of the/ CAPITOL AT/ WASHINGTON/ W.R.
William Ridgway & Co. · ca. 1840–ca. 1854

Benjamin West
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, 1785 - 1836 · 1827

Percussion Longrifle
Benjamin J. Kough · ca. 1845–50

Here's to You Henry Clay
Benjamin W. Thayer Lithography Co., active 1840 - 1853 · 1844

CAPITOL. / WASHINGTON
John & William Ridgway · ca. 1830

Henry Clay
Benjamin W. Thayer Lithography Co., active 1840 - 1853 · 1844
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. 273 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. 137587 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-26 12:54 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.