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. 11 shown for “Elias Baeck” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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 Matthias Buchinger Surrounded by Thirteen Vignettes
Elias Baeck · 1710

Andreaea rupestris Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record

Ollio pot with cover and stand
Vienna · ca. 1725

Carpesium macrocephalum Franch. & Sav.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1958

Elias Boudinot, IV
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1798

Elias Boudinot, IV
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · c. 1822-25

Elias Smith Dennis
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

Krynitzkia coroniformis Elias
Artist not stated in the record

Elias Glenn
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1803

Erica riojana Sennen & Elias
Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1922

Elias Howe
William Henry Brown, 1808 - 1883 · 1843
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 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. 11147 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 08:33 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.