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 “Elijah J. Christman” — 55 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Dr. Dolan, Waterville, Minnesota], by Elijah J. Christman](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-005.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Dr. Dolan, Waterville, Minnesota]
Elijah J. Christman · 1880s–1890s

Henrya insularis Nees
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1969

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot
Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987
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Clarinet in B-flat
Charles G. Christman · ca. 1853–54

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

Camel
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

The Healing of the Blind Man and the Raising of Lazarus
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

Hunting Scene
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

Dicerandra frutescens Shinners
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)
Alessandro Magnasco · 1687–1749

Dicerandra christmanii Huck & Judd
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1987

The Last Supper
Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Melia azedarach L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1969

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well
Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80
Cnidoscolus multilobus (Pax) I.M. Johnst.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1969

Nymph of the Spring
Lucas Cranach the Younger · ca. 1545–50

Piper caninum Blume
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/6/69

A Donor Presented by a Saint
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1460–65

Elijah F. Pennypacker, Station Master on the Road
Unidentified Artist · 1872
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 1183865 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 05:24 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.