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 “Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458
John Forbes Watson · 1873–80

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company print of The Colonel performed by actor Eric Bayley
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

Chinese Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

The Colonel! Eric Bayley's The Colonel Comedy Company by Joseph E. Baker and published by Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Company
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

Western Dugout, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Mr. Gus Williams the American Star Comique by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

Spanish House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

"A Child of the State" by George Hoey
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · ca 1880

Mormon Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

American Cottage Home, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Florence
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

Brazilian Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

Samoan Homestead, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

A Hunt Above The Timber Line
Bradlee Whidden · 1890

House in the Black Sea, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Killing Salmon
Bradlee Whidden · 1889

Laplanders House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Fly-Fishing for Black Bass
Bradlee Whidden · 1890

Arab House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Trout Fishing
Bradlee Whidden · 1889

American Farm House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
The Giles Company · 1890

Stalking the Wapiti
Bradlee Whidden · 1890
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. 634 matched · 24 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. 284663 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 07:45 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.