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 “Harry Powell” — 56 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fan-shaped vase
Harry Powell · ca. 1890

Compote
Harry Powell, English, 1870 - 1920 · ca. 1890–1900

Tall-stemmed vase
Harry Powell · ca. 1890

Mentha canadensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

Tear wine glass
Harry Powell · ca. 1899

Clematis viorna L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1937

Vase with knopped stem
Harry Powell · ca. 1880

Houstonia longifolia Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

Footed goblet with bulging bowl
Philip Webb · 1860

Polygonum tenue F. Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery
James Gillray · March 13, 1807

Coreopsis tripteris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Oenothera gaura W.L. Wagner & Hoch
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Teucrium canadense L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1937

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

The Holy Family
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Ageratina altissima (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Paronychia fastigiata var. pumila (Alph. Wood) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Asclepias incarnata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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. 67252 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-06 20:53 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.