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. 10 shown for “Carpenter, Luman” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Patent Model for an Ellipsographic Copying Machine
Carpenter, Luman · ca 1842

Luman Reed
Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900 · c. 1867

Luman Reed
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1835
Sporobolus hookerianus P.M. Peterson & Saarela
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1901

Strychnos spinosa Lam.
Artist not stated in the record

Eleocharis limosa (Schrad.) Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1948

Elymus lanceolatus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould subsp. lanceolatus
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1901

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. subsp. viscidiflorus
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 2014

Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1985

Callicarpa sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1985
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7083 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:45 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.