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 Flavelle” — 46 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature teapot (part of a set)
Henry Flavelle · 1827 and 1829

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family
Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1865

Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)
Henry Flavelle · 1827 and 1829

Henry W. Longfellow
James Henry Haseltine, 1833 - 1907 · 1871

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family
Unknown · 1862

Henry Wilson
Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1855

Henry Clay
Henry F. Darby, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1849

Henry Wikoff
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

Joseph Henry
Henry Ulke, 29 Jan 1821 - 17 Feb 1910 · 1885

William Henry Harrison
Henry R. Robinson, active c. 1833 - 1851 · 1840

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1859

Henry Larcom Abbot
Nahum Ball Onthank, 1823 - 1888 · 1857

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1876
![Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-0ECA08FB32A22-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 115519 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 18:57 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.