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 “Eleanor Parke Custis” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Martha Washington
Eleanor Parke Custis · ca. 1798

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Portrait of George Washington
Eleanor Parke Custis · ca. 1798
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis
Unidentified Artist · 1855

Sugar Bowl
Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

The Washington Family
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1867

Teapot
Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

The Washington Family
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · 1798

Coffeepot
Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

George Washington and Family
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

Creamer
Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

Washington and His Family
William Sartain, born Philadelphia, PA 1843-died New York City 1924 · 1865

The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis–George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses Deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis
Edward Savage · March 10, 1798

The Washington Family
Edward Savage, born Princeton, MA 1761-died Princeton, MA 1817 · 1798

The Home of Washington
Thomas Oldham Barlow · 1863

Washington & Family by Kellogg & Bulkeley after Edward Savage
Kellogg & Bulkeley · ca 1867

Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana
William Henry Rinehart · 1870; carved 1874

Washington Family
H. Schile and Company · 1869

Teakettle, lamp, and table
Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Washington Family by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg after Edward Savage
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · 1843-1852

Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer) and Baby Eleanor
Charles Willson Peale · 1790

The Washington Family by Alfred M. Hoffy after Edward Savage
Hoffy, Alfred M. · 1858

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon
Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784
Tholey, Charles P. · 1868
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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 142182 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 2026-09-04 21:48 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.