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. 14 shown for “George Harrison” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Fire Bucket, "George Harrison"
unknown · early 19th century

Henry L. Taylor
George Harrison Hite · 1833

Edward Preble
Edme Quenedey, 1756 - 1830 · 1814

Daniel Webster
George Harrison Hite · 1844

Benjamin Harrison and Family
Unidentified Artist · 1889

Sconce
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Sconce
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Daniel Webster
William Russell Birch · ca. 1833

William Henry Harrison
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

The Three Bears
Harrison William Weir · 1851

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

George Wallis, The Late Celebrated Antiquary and Gunsmith of Hull
John Raphael Smith · June 20, 1804
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. 140 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 208940 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 23:50 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.