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. 17 shown for “Henry Carlton Wilber” — 50 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio], by Henry Carlton Wilber](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-017.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio]
Henry Carlton Wilber · 1880s–1890s

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England
Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

The Hall Carlton House
Thomas Rowlandson · April 1, 1808

Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England
Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

The Hall Carlton House
Thomas Rowlandson · April 1, 1808

Adoxa moschatellina L.
Artist not stated in the record

"An Old Man and His Young Wife Before Religious Arbitrators," Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di
Daulat · 1610–15

Francis A Wilber's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor
George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Hypericum ascyron subsp. pyramidatum (Aiton) N. Robson
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1874

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
John Manton & Son · 1815–34

Anemone cylindrica A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1878

Preston Hodges
Charles Loring Elliott · 1850

Perognathus parvus lordi
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1918

Warwick Castle
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1748

Acer spicatum Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1891

Ilex pallida Standl.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1978
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 116702 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:56 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.