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 “E. Pattison” — 45 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shoes
E. Pattison · 1806–15

Poa annua L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/11/38

Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1888

Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H. Raven
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1975

View of La Crescenza
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50

Macaranga aleuritoides F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1975

Sunrise
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47

Granville Sharpe Pattison
Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872 · c. 1826

The Ford
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1636

Granville Sharpe Pattison
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · c. 1832
Pometia pinnata J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1975

Gunnera macrophylla Blume
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1975

Leea guineensis G. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1975

Homalomena melanesica A. Hay
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1975 or 7 Oct 1975

Syzygium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Nov 1975

Homalomena robusta Engl. & K. Krause
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1975

Medical Faculty of the University of New York
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1846
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. 1105501 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 02:31 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.