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 “Charles W. Burton” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View of the Capitol
Charles W. Burton · 1824

Wheeler and the Court Fight
Clifford Kennedy Berryman, 2 Feb 1869 - 11 Dec 1949 · 1937

United States Branch Bank, Wall Street
Charles W. Burton · 1831

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Myrcia orientalis (B. Holst & M.L. Kawas.) G.P. Burton & E. Lucas
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1981

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Primula vulgaris Huds.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1875

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Samolus valerandi L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1826

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Primula vulgaris Huds.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1875

Head of Ptolemy II or III
Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1998

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Agrostis stolonifera L.
Artist not stated in the record

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Bromus tectorum L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/5/41

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Agrostis gigantea Roth
Artist not stated in the record

Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin
Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Seligeria pusilla (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.
Artist not stated in the record
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. 5010 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1024312 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-07 11:04 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.