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 “Henry Augustus Loop” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
John Quincy Adams Ward
Henry Augustus Loop · 1863

The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

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

Necklace
Augustus F. Rose, born Hebron, Nova Scotia, Canada 1873- died Providence, RI 1946 · 1917

Hiawatha
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1871–72, carved 1874

Augustus Fricke
Jean Pierre Henri Elouis, French, born Caen, France 1755-died Caen, France 1840 · ca. 1795

Cameo glass medallion of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st century CE

Henry Augustus Coit
John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893 · 1838

Cornish Celebration Presentation Plaque
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1905–6; cast ca. 1913

Joseph Henry
Theodore Augustus Mills, born Charleston, SC 1839-died Pittsburgh, PA 1916 · ca. 1880

Glass hexagonal amphoriskos
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Dr. Henry Shiff
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born Dublin, Ireland 1848-died Cornish, NH 1907 · modeled 1880

Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis, his consort (1573–1642)
Guillaume Dupré · 1603

Henry Wager Halleck
Austin Augustus Turner, 1831 - 1866 · c. 1861

Charles Henry Augustus Carter
Nicholas Biddle Kittell · ca. 1845

The High Command - Left Panel
Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 - 22 Jul 1949 · 1947-49

William Henry II and Cornelius Vanderbilt III
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1882

Portrait of Henry Wilson (1812-1875)
Marshall, Augustus 1835-1916 · 1876

Buckle Loop
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Franklin Roosevelt and Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1933

Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun
Louis Perrin · dated 1854

Jug
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

Augustus Saint Gaudens
Anders Zorn · 1897

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture
Powell & Co. · 1865
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. 199 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. 122709 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 04:01 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.