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. 14 shown for “Henry Fitz Jr.” — 64 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Gentleman], by Henry Fitz Jr.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP218306.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Gentleman]
Henry Fitz Jr. · ca. 1840

Daguerreotype self-portrait of Henry Fitz Jr.
Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1839-11

Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1862

Daguerreotype of Baltimore Street Scene
Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1840-1844

Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Snuffer Stand
Philip Syng Jr. · 1755–65

The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment
Paul Revere Jr. · 1770

The Golden State Entering New York Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1854
![[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP339371.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]
William Henry Fox Talbot · probably 1835

Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1655–60

Faith and Hope
Henry E. Sharp · 1867–69

Red School House (Country Scene)
George Henry Durrie · 1858

Collar Plate for a Helmet of Henry III of France (1551–1589)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Basin
William Bradford Jr. · 1719–58
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. 835 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 253302 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 18:49 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.