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 “Caleb Gardner Jr.” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 05:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Easy Chair
Caleb Gardner Jr. · 1758
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

Caleb Gasper
Charles Loring Elliott · 1852
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

The Nativity
Gerard David · early 1480s

George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait
George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879 · c. 1849-50

Village Marketplace (Le Marché de Village)
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre · ca.1735–40

Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918

A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple
Antoine Caron · 1521–99

Caleb Strong
Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54

The Tomb of Agamemnon
Louis Jean Desprez · ca. 1787
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1911

The Crucifixion
Hans Burgkmair · 1527
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1911

Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · ca. 1785
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1911

Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso)
Karel van Mander I · ca. 1591

Pilot Edward Gardner's aviation face mask
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919

Standing Male Figure
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1480

Caleb Strong
John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817 · 1812

Studies for an Angel in Glory
Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) · 1595–1633
Chondracanthus serratus (N.L. Gardner) J.R. Hughey & Hommersand
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
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. 311 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 166503 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-08 05:34 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.