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 “George Henry Durrie, 6 Jun 1820 - 15 Oct 1863” — 41 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill
James Gillray · March 23, 1807

George Henry Durrie Self-Portrait
George Henry Durrie, 6 Jun 1820 - 15 Oct 1863 · 1843

Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut
George Henry Durrie, born New Haven, CT 1820-died New Haven, CT 1863 · ca. 1858

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside
Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · 1864

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant
Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881 · 1867

Lincoln and his Lieutenants
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1911

Council of War
Peter Kramer, 1823 - 1907 · 1865

Henry Jarvis Raymond
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1863

General Sheridan and His Staff
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · c. 1865

St. George and the Dragon
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Grant and His Generals
Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906 · 1865

Artists Around a Table
Robert Henri, 25 Jun 1865 - 12 Jul 1929 · c. 1920
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. 3005282 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 10:07 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.