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 Trott” — 54 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin Kintzing
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

David McClellan
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

Portrait of a Gentleman
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1798

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B.
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1795

Alexander Henry Durdin
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1810

Jane Stone
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

Mrs. William Edward Wilmerding (Joanna Mary Gosman)
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

Miriam Etting Myers
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

Portrait of a Gentleman
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

Anne Hume Shippen
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1796

William Edward Wilmerding
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

John Cleves Short
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · 19th century

George Wood
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

George Washington
John Roberts, 1768 - 1803 · 1799

Charles Wagner
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/2/19

Mrs. Fox
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1805
Eragrostis cilianensis (Bellardi) Vignolo ex Janch.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 7/1/19

Benjamin Chew Wilcocks
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1810

Agrostis sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/8/87

Mrs. Nathaniel Chapman (Rebekah Biddle)
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1949

Charles Floyd
Benjamin Trott · ca. 1804

Daucus pusillus Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1958
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 27252 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 23:23 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.