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 “Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Ceiling paper
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)
Louis Daniel Nimschke · ca. 1850–1900

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915
![[Female Nude in Studio], by Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT1168.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Female Nude in Studio]
Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes · 1856–59

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–08

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Ceiling paper
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Frieze
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

The New Bonnet
Francis William Edmonds · 1858

Frieze
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1900

Casket
Michel Redlin · ca. 1680

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

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

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

Casket
R. & S. Garrard & Co. · 1875 or 1876

Frieze
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–1907

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

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Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–08
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. 811 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1232079 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:33 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.