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. 12 shown for “Hart, Charles” — 24 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 23:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Colonel Arnold, Who Commanded the Provincial Troops Sent against Quebec, through the Wilderness of Canada and Was Wounded in Storming that City, under General Montgomery
Thomas Hart · March 26, 1776

Charles A. Macy
Jacob Hart Lazarus · 1850–55

Pasture Scene
James M. Hart · 1876

Pitcher
Union Porcelain Works · 1875–85

Commodore Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the American Fleet
Anonymous, 18th century · August 22, 1776

Basket
John Edwards II · 1731/32

John Inman
Henry Inman · ca. 1830

Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Charles Carrol of Carrolton
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1835

Commodore Hopkins
Artist not stated in the record · 1776

Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · 1480–85

The Unfortunate Death of Major André, from Barnard's New, Complete and Authentic History of England
Jabez Goldar · 1782
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. 133 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 23:29 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.