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 “Greenough, Benjamin F.” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Lamp part
Greenough, Benjamin F.

Teakettle
Benjamin Brewood II · 1762–63

Timpoochee Barnard, an Uchee Warrior.
M. O'C., n.d. · 1838

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Horatio Greenough · 1831; cast probably 1928?
Juncus caespiticius E. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 1877

Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Horatio Greenough
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1838

Celery vase
Benjamin Bakewell & Co. · 1810–20

Pileanthus filifolius Meisn.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Benjamin Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam · 1859

Bonamia rosea Hall
Artist not stated in the record

Benjamin Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam · 1859

Neurachne multiculmis Pilg. in Diels & E. Pritz.
Artist not stated in the record

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

JOHN RIDGE, A CHEROKEE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

Benjamin Franklin
Charles Willson Peale · 1787

M'INTOSH. A CREEK CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

Benjamin Franklin
Jean François Janinet · 1789

PEAH-MUS-KA. A MUSQUAKE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

Cartouche with Title: Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches
Anonymous, 17th century · 17th century

POW-A-SHEEK. A FOX CHIEF.
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

Benjamin Franklin
François Denis Née · [April 1781]

STUM-MA-NU, A FLAT-HEAD BOY., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838
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. 218 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 673940 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-05 23:24 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.