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 “Hawkes, Charles W.” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Hawkes, Charles W. · ca 1850

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1857

Hawk and fish
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1849

Hawk on a leafless branch
Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 1279-1368

A Tatar horseman with a hawk
Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 1368-1644

Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah - Black Hawk A Saukie Brave
Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks
Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 14th century

Solanum iopetalum (Bitter) Hawkes
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1908

Two hawks on a withered bough
Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 16th century

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1938

LITTLE CROW. A SIOUX CHIEF, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

Two hawks on a barren bough
Formerly attributed to Li Demao (late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th century
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1030107 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 2026-09-05 22:20 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.