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. 18 shown for “Griffiths, Harry S.” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clock case and vase
George E. Ohr · 1898

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Griffiths, Harry S. · ca 1880
![[Pair of Stereograph Views of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, London, England], by J. F. Jarvis](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP73377.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Pair of Stereograph Views of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, London, England]
J. F. Jarvis · 1850s–1910s

Calloides nobilis
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1952
![[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Westminster Abbey, London, England], by European and American Views](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP73333.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Group of 5 Stereograph Views of Westminster Abbey, London, England]
European and American Views · 1850s–1910s
Nitella flexilis (L.) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1942

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE
Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. var. tenuis
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1941

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation
Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400
Oryza rufipogon Griffith
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/11/89

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
Oryza rufipogon Griffith
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/8/90
Oryza rufipogon Griffith
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/11/89
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1898

Acer spicatum Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1941

Eupatorium fistulosum Barratt
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1942

Callitriche heterophylla Pursh emend. Darby
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1942

Chelone glabra L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1941
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. 6385 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 886703 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 22:19 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.