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. 14 shown for “Clark, Coit and Cargill” — 42 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chandelier
Clark, Coit and Cargill · ca. 1845

Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/8/2

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes
Auguste Renoir · 1881

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1944

Daniel Coit Gilman
Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · 1875

Henry Augustus Coit
John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893 · 1838

Theatre bill
Torii Kiyohiro (active ca. 1750-1765) · 1745-1770

A woman's figure
Toyokuni II (1777-1835) · 1776-1835

Street scene: a procession
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861) · 1797-1861

Diptych; (recto) Two groups of women's figures; (verso) Two designs of warriors
Shiko (ca. 1773-1805) · 1768-1810

Landscape with shell-gatherers
Sadatora Shunsen (active ca. 1800-1835) · 1795-1840

A Group of Geisha
Tsukioka Eizan · 1795-1840

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908)
Morse, George Daniels 1835- · 1875

Woodblock print: four designs of warriors; reverse: group of fans and individual signature and seals
Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (1807-1873) · 1807-1873
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1520229 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.