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. 17 shown for “Civil war shelter tent half owned by George Thompson Garrison” — 45 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Civil war shelter tent half owned by George Thompson Garrison
Artist not stated in the record · circa 1863

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Traveling trunk used by George Thompson Garrison in the Civil War
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
![[Antietam Battlefield], by Alexander Gardner](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP274832.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Antietam Battlefield]
Alexander Gardner · 1862

Pocketwatch inscribed to William Lloyd Garrison from George Thompson
Artist not stated in the record · 1850

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Notebook of lists and accounts made by George T. Garrison
George Thompson Garrison, American, 1836 - 1904 · 1864

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Photograph of members of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry
Artist not stated in the record · 1863-1865

Collection box of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society owned by Garrison family
Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, American, 1833 - 1850s · 1830s - 1850s

Carte-de-visite album of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
John Ritchie, American, 1836 - 1919 · ca.1864

Civil War Union patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 2, 1862

Civil War Union patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 7, 1862

Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

George Custer
William Illingworth, 1844 - 1893 · 1874
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 733726 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 19:09 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.