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. 13 shown for “Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818” — 41 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
TRANSYLVANIA/ UNIVERSITY/ LEXINGTON/ E.W.&S./ CELTIC CHINA
Enoch Wood & Sons · ca. 1828–ca. 1846

Edward Shippen
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

Joseph Bloomfield
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

Aaron Burr
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

Thomas Jefferson
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1802

George Washington
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1800

Mourning Piece for George Washington
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1803-1818 · 1810

Frontispiece
François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect
François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

Meta-koosega
John T. Bowen, 1801 - c. 1856 · 1838

Joel Barlow
Le Barbier, active c. 1801 · c. 1801

Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778
Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

Plan general et coupe d’une Maison construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect
François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 785584 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 21:25 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.