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 “E. Webb's Union Gallery” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Telegrapher], by E. Webb's Union Gallery](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42459-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Telegrapher]
E. Webb's Union Gallery · 1868

Meade and his Generals
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1882 · c. 1865

Spoon
Edward Webb · ca. 1710

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · October 3, 1862

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier · 1864

George W. Morrell
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

A Deerhound
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826

Ada and Emma Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Dream of Arcadia
James Smillie · 1851

Ada and Emma Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Alfred Thomas Torbert
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1862

The Image Breaker
Alfred Jones · 1851

Villosa lienosa
Artist not stated in the record

Florinda
Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1853

Villosa villosa
Artist not stated in the record

Christ Healing the Sick
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Emma Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Woman with a Rake
Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

Ada Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Emma Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River
James Deane · published 1861

Emma Webb
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 187 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1178815 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 02:42 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.