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 “George W. Morrell” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

George W. Morrell
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

George Moore (1852–1933)
Edouard Manet · 1879

New York Weekly Messenger Vol. 2 No. 22
Artist not stated in the record · December 19, 1832

George Washington
Giuseppe Ceracchi · 1795

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · October 3, 1862

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Penstemon procerus subsp. aberrans (M.E. Jones) D.D. Keck
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 2014

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Polypodium nigrescens Blume
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1953

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Digitalis grandiflora Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 1896

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo
Artist not stated in the record · 188

George Henry Loring
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849

Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo
Artist not stated in the record · 1886

George Washington
James Peale · 1782

Digitalis ambigua Murray
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1896

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852

Vermivora ruficapilla
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1893

Mrs. George Henry Loring (Amalia Heredia)
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849

Corvus brachyrhynchos
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1894

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Parus atricapillus
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1896
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. 7559 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1081846 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 04:00 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.