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 “H. A. Harvey” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Vase with cover (one of a pair)
I H · 1675–76
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forssk.) Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

English Horn
H. Grenser · before 1807
Batophora oerstedii
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE
Herposiphonia tenella (C. Agardh) Ambronn
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782
Yuzurua poiteaui var. gemmifera (Harvey) M.J. Wynne
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Pyxis (Cylindrical Container)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Penstemon barbatus (Cav.) Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935
![[The Harvey Album], by Emily Clare Harvey](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP223246.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Harvey Album]
Emily Clare Harvey · 1868

Pinus engelmannii Carrière
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1935

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu
Palisada perforata (Bory) K.W. Nam
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Center Table
Anthony G. Quervelle · ca. 1830
Halimeda monile (J. Ellis & Sol.) J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

Proposed Rail Road for Broadway
H. A. Harvey · 1848

Proposed Railroad for Broadway, New York City
Artist not stated in the record · 1848

Mary of Burgundy
Master H.A. or A.H. · 1528

Penstemon campanulatus (Cav.) Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1935

First Arabesque Penchée
Edgar Degas · modeled probably before 1890, cast 1920

Penstemon barbatus subsp. torreyi (Benth.) D.D. Keck
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1935
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. 53615 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 2448755 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 23:14 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.