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 “Francis Davis Millet, 3 Nov 1846 - 15 Apr 1912” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sidney Dillon
Francis Davis Millet, 3 Nov 1846 - 15 Apr 1912 · 1889

Francis Davis Millet
George Willoughby Maynard, 1843 - 1923 · 1878

Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain
Gruber, Martin A · 1919

Francis Davis Millet
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1879

The Cossacks Part II, "Fifty Lashes"
Francis Davis Millet, born Mattapoisett, MA 1846-died at sea 1912 · 1877-1878

Room Interior with Winding Staircase
Francis Davis Millet, born Mattapoisett, MA 1846-died at sea 1912 · n.d.

Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain
Gruber, Martin A · 1919

Zachary Taylor
Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857 · 1847
Prasinocladus lubricus f. subsalsa Zimmermann
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Nov 1893

Hercules of the Union
Unidentified Artist · 1861

Civil War Naval Officers
Unidentified Artist · c. 1862

The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860
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. 4427601 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 02:50 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.