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 “Chester (Charles) Harding” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:27 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. Francis Stanton Blake
Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1840–44

Charles Carroll
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1830

Stephen Van Rensselaer
Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1828

Charles Sprague
Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836 · 1832

Eunice Harriet Brigham
Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1835

Chester Harding
Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge
Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1827

Daniel Boone
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1820

Charles Carrol of Carrolton
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1835

Loammi Baldwin
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1823

Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Joseph Story
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1827

Nathanael Greene
Charles Willson Peale · 1778

Harrison Gray Otis
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1833

George Washington
Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Bushrod Washington
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1828

Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis
Charles Willson Peale · 1777–80

Daniel Webster
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · c. 1828

General Henry Knox
Charles Willson Peale · 1778

James Madison
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · c. 1829-30

Arthur St. Clair
Charles Willson Peale · 1780

John Randolf of Roanoke
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1829-30

Ennion Williams
Charles Willson Peale · 1776

Henry Clay
Artist not stated in the record · 1842 or 1848
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. 485 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 137985 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 19:27 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.