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. 12 shown for “Eliza Hardy” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Letter to L.C. Handy from Eliza Hardy
Eliza Hardy · January 21, 1896

Envelope addressed to Mr. L.C. Handy from Eliza Hardy
Eliza Hardy · January 21, 1896

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1924

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Herbert Rose Barraud, 24 Aug 1845 - 1896 · c. 1895

Eliza Barclay Livingston
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

Eliza Hewson
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1798

Eliza Stoles Longacre
Unidentified Artist · c. 1830

Eliza Williams
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1835

Eliza Osgood Peabody, Age 6
Unidentified · 1830

Madame Eliza Jumel
Alexandre-Désiré Collette, 1814 - 1876 · c. 1852

Eliza Susan Morton Quincy
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

Representative Women of Deseret
Augusta Joyce Crocheron, 1844 - 1915 · 1883
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3520 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 2026-09-01 13:37 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.