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. 16 shown for “Gilman R. Russell, active 1855 - 1870” — 44 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Mr. George Bailey
Richard Dadd · August 15, 1855

Abraham Lincoln
Gilman R. Russell, active 1855 - 1870 · 1865

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

William Howard Russell
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp
Benjamin Wilson · March 18, 1766

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Ellen Day Hale, 11 Feb 1855 - 10 Feb 1940 · before 1880

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Jeremiah Howard Gilman
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Daniel Coit Gilman
Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · 1875
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1150668 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 20:17 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.