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 “Henry Farrer” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:15 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.

Woman Walking beside a River
Henry Farrer · 1902

Winter Scene in Moonlight
Henry Farrer · 1869

City and Sunset
Henry Farrer

Autumn's Grey and Melancholy
Henry Farrer · 1884

Lighthouse
Henry Farrer · 1880

Pelham Bay
Henry Farrer · ca. 1875

Old House in Rector Street, from "Scenes of Old New York"
Henry Farrer · 1870

Little Hell Gate, Harlem
Henry Farrer · ca. 1880–89

Somerindyck House, from "Scenes of Old New York"
Henry Farrer · 1870

Sunset on the East River
Henry Farrer · 1879

The Harsen Homestead, Corner of 10th Avenue and 70th Street, from "Scenes of Old New York"
Henry Farrer · 1876

The Cooke Monument in St. Paul's Churchyard, from "Scenes of Old New York"
Henry Farrer · 1876
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 0 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 01:15 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.