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 “Griswold and Gunnison” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651
Griswold and Gunnison · 1864

Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1839

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1888, cast 1890

Tetradymia canescens DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1957

Beaker
Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Helianthus petiolaris Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1965

Dish
Ashbil Griswold · 1807–34

Crepis intermedia A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1965

Soap dish
Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Crepis intermedia A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1965

Soap Box
Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Crepis intermedia A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1964

Needlework Picture: “The Finding of Moses in the River Nile”
Mary Ann Parks Hammond · ca. 1855

Hymenopappus filifolius var. cinereus (Rydb.) I.M. Johnst.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1957

Mrs. James Clinton Griswold
Charles Loring Elliott · 1854

Actinea acaulis var. arizonica (Greene) S.F. Blake
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1957

Corset
Madam Griswold's · 1876

Senecio integerrimus Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1966

Miquelet Rifle of Ali Pasha
Artist not stated in the record · lock and stock, dated A.H. 1224/1809–10 CE; barrel, 18th century

Astragalus oophorus S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1965

Miquelet Rifle
Artist not stated in the record · barrel dated A.H. 1151/1738–39 CE; lock dated A.H. 1240/1824–25 CE

Astragalus anisus M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1966

Ecorché: Torso of a Male Cadaver
Eugène Delacroix · 1828?

Astragalus molybdenus Barneby
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1955
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. 580 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1468896 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-31 23:16 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.