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 Thomas Ryall” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coronation of Queen Victoria
Henry Thomas Ryall · 1842

Thomas Henry Carter
Ida Story Hammond · c. 1890

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899

George Henry Thomas
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869 · c. 1862

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872

George Henry Thomas
William Sartain, 1843 - 1924 · c. 1866

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

George Henry Thomas
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

George Henry Thomas
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1864

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92
George Henry Thomas
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1853

Thomas Cole
Henry Kirke Brown · by 1850

George Henry Thomas
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1860

Grand Pianoforte
Érard · ca. 1840

Henry Finn and Thomas Kilner
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

George H. Thomas
John Chester Buttre, 10 Jun 1821 - 2 Dec 1893 · 1865

Henry Woodward
Bow Porcelain Factory · 1750
Philip Henry Sheridan
Thomas Buchanan Read, 12 Mar 1822 - 11 May 1872 · 1871

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Fokienia hodginsii A. Henry & Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · 1930

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

John Thomas Scopes
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · 1925
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. 1494 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 233268 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 2026-09-05 14:09 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.