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. 17 shown for “George Graham, active 1786 - 1813” — 45 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal
John Doyle · May 14, 1838

Isaac Hull
Artist not stated in the record · 1813

Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage"
John Doyle · May 24, 1837

Samuel Adams
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1795

The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1)
Benjamin Smith · originally published 1797; reissued 1852

Isaac Hull
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1813

The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris
Thomas Rowlandson · December 4, 1813

Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1797

The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris
Thomas Rowlandson · December 4, 1813

Samuel Adams
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1801

Samuel Adams
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1797

Alexander Hamilton
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1800-04
John Adams
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1798

George Washington
Atkins And Nightingale · 1801

Anthony Wayne
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1796

Share: Salem Iron Factory
George Graham, active 1797-1813 · ca. 1810

James Dwight Dana
Rudolf Hoffmann, active 1840s - 1850s · 1857
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 238663 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 21:08 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.