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 “Crocker” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mourning hat
Crocker · ca. 1903

Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Barr & Young, active 1860s · c. 1863

Tablecover
Olive Crocker Lovell · ca. 1830

Nathan Crocker and William Goddard
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843
Buddhist Altar Cloth
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Padded Case
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sash for Use Under Obi
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Noh Robe (Happi) with Pattern of Flowers and Auspicious Symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Wrist Rest with Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Book cover to an Illustrated Tourist Guide of Noted Summer & Winter Resorts of California
Emmanuel Wyttenbach · ca. 1870–80

Ship Owners and Merchant Tug Boat Company
Emmanuel Wyttenbach · after 1882

Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 240 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. 2152 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:26 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.