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 “Eliphalet M. Brown Jr.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clipper Ship "Sovereign of the Seas"
Eliphalet M. Brown Jr. · 1852

Temple at Tumai Lew Chew
James Ackerman Lithography Co., active 1845 - 1859 · 1856

Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud"
James E. Buttersworth · 1852

Tom Hyer
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1849

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Fanny Elssler
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1840

The Nativity
Gerard David · early 1480s

Passing the Rubicon
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

Cottage among Trees
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

First Landing of Americans in Japan
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso)
Karel van Mander I · ca. 1591

First Landing of Americans in Japan
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

Music-Making Angels
Albrecht Dürer · 1521

Return of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron from an Official Visit to the Prince Regent at Shui, Capitol of Lew Chew, June 6th 1853
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

The Descent of Christ to Limbo (recto); Coats of Arms of Florentine and Sienese Families (verso)
Domenico Beccafumi · ca. 1536

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-hama, Japan, March 8th 1854
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple
Antoine Caron · 1521–99

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda, Japan, June 8, 1854
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

The Discovery of the True Cross
Bernardo Strozzi · 1599–1644

Exercise of Troops in Temple Grounds
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1856

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1860

Saint Catherine
Lucas Cranach the Elder · late 15th–mid-16th century

Eliphalet Nott
Martin M. Lawrence, 1809 - 1859 · 1855
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. 308 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1333903 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 11:34 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.