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 Wilson” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Benjamin Franklin
Johann Elias Haid, 1739 - 1809 · 1778

Plate
Emile Dupont-Zipcy · 1776–1883

Benjamin Franklin
James McArdell, c. 1729 - 1765 · 1761

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp
Benjamin Wilson · March 18, 1766

1851 - Allen B. Wilson's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1851-08-12

Mr. Garrick in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
James McArdell · November 1, 1754

1850 - Allen Wilson's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-11-12

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame Stamp
Anonymous, British, 18th century · 1766

1852 - Allen Wilson's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1852-06-15

Brighella on a pedestal
Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1868

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp
Anonymous, British, 18th century · 1766

Photograph of Pres. Wilson at first regularly scheduled airmail service ceremony
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918

Mr. Garrick in the Character of King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 1)
James McArdell · 1761

Myrcia karuaiensis (Steyerm.) E. Lucas & C.E. Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 2006

David Garrick as King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 1)
James McArdell · 1761

Spoons as Falstaff Mustering the Impeachment Managers
Thomas Worth, 1834 - 1917 · 1868

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Myrcia guildingiana (Griseb.) E. Lucas & C.E. Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 2006

General Winfield Scott Hancock
J. Wilson Alexander MacDonald · 1880, cast ca. 1886

Myrcia neoschomburgkiana E. Lucas & C.E. Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 2007

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Myrcia neocuprea E. Lucas & C.E. Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 2006
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 67721 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 13:25 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.