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 “Edward S. Dodge” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Edward S. Dodge
John Wood Dodge · 1835

Empidonax wrightii
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1859

John Wood Dodge
Edward S. Dodge · ca. 1836–37

Latzelia antarctica C.W. Dodge
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1940

Portrait of a Gentleman
Edward S. Dodge · 1840–45

Artemisia pontica
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1910

Portrait of a Gentleman
Edward S. Dodge · ca. 1845
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1907

William Henry Tallmadge
Edward S. Dodge · 1841

Artemisia frigida Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1910

Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Artemisia pontica
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Artemisia frigida Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1910

Edward and Sarah Rutter
Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Mentha canadensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1910

Covered Sauce Tureen
Edward Lownes · ca. 1817

Papaver rhoeas L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

Panther and Cubs
Edward Kemeys · ca. 1878; cast 1907

Erysimum repandum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1900

Still Hunt
Edward Kemeys · 1894

Erysimum repandum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1902

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Conringia orientalis (L.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1917
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. 6901 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 935424 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-04 01:26 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.