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. 22 shown for “Charles Fraser” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mrs. Jean Pierre Barre
Charles Fraser · 1825–30

Henry Trescot
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1821

Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden
Charles Fraser · 1819

David Ramsay
Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860 · c. 1835

Powell Macrae
Charles Fraser · 1833

Portrait of a Gentleman
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1820

Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson
Charles Fraser · 1823

Dr. Joseph Glover
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1820

Colonel James Elliott McPherson
Charles Fraser · 1819

Harriet Hampton
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1835

Dr. Francis Kinloch Huger
Charles Fraser · 1825

Judge Thomas Waties
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1820

Powell MacRae
Henry Colton Shumway · ca. 1845

Joseph W. Faber
Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1837

St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire
William Fraser Garden · 1895

Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser
Artist not stated in the record

Portrait of a Gentleman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Amorpha nana C. Fraser
Artist not stated in the record · 1848

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)
John Hoppner

Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser
Artist not stated in the record

Snuffbox
Jean Frémin · 1755–56

Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)
Thomas Gainsborough
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 134040 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 2026-08-28 18:22 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.