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. 17 shown for “Graves & Company” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Keyed Bugle in E (originally E-flat?)
Graves & Company · 1830–50

Rural Free Delivery wagon
L.C. Graves · 1899

Clarinet in B-flat
Graves & Company · ca. 1830–40

Aristida oligantha Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1950

Clarinet in C
Graves & Company · ca. 1845

Grave of Stonewall Jackson
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1870

Marble grave stele of a little girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–440 BCE

LE CHIMISTE
Hormann

Limestone funerary stele (shaft) with a "Cypriot capital"
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

LA PHARMACIE
Artist not stated in the record

Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE

Limestone pediment from a funerary stele (shaft)
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Bank
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1833–50

Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain
James McNeill Whistler · 1876, reworked 1885

Pitcher
Hobbs, Brockunier and Company · 1883–87

Paperweight
Mount Washington Glass Company · 1870–1900

Paperweight
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1850–75
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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 51 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:27 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.