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 “Edward Winslow” — 64 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate
Edward Winslow · ca. 1705

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

Waiting for a Bite, from Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1874, p. 693
Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · August 22, 1874

Gathering Berries
Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · July 11, 1874
Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1909

Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?"
Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · June 13, 1874

Vitis arizonica Engelm.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1917

Tamarix chinensis Lour.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1909

Allenrolfea occidentalis (S. Watson) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1909

Salix linearifolia E.L. Wolf
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1909

Camping Out in the Adirondack Mountains
Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · November 7, 1874

Snap-the-Whip
Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · September 20, 1873

Winslow Homer
Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863
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. 32 matched · 24 examined · 22 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. 129305 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 05:46 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.