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. 22 shown for “Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897” — 50 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Mt. Marino
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · October 16, 1860

View on the Seine: Harp of the Winds
Homer Dodge Martin · 1893–95

Head of a man in the style of Frans Hals
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

Ausable River
Homer Dodge Martin · 1866

Monday's Hut
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · October 2, 1859

Ned Samson and His Wife
Homer Dodge Martin · 1868

Heads of two men, in the style of Frans Hals
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

Old Manor of Criqueboeuf
Homer Dodge Martin · ca. 1882–92

Landscape
William James Linton, born London, England 1812-died CT 1897 · n.d.

Behind Dunes, Lake Ontario
Homer Dodge Martin · 1883–87

A North Woods Lake
Homer Dodge Martin, born Albany, NY 1836-died St. Paul, MN 1897 · 1867

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

Wild Coast, Newport
Homer Dodge Martin, born Albany, NY 1836-died St. Paul, MN 1897 · ca. 1885-1895

A Country Store – Getting Weighed (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)
Winslow Homer · March 25, 1871

Evening on the Thames
Homer Dodge Martin, born Albany, NY 1836-died St. Paul, MN 1897 · ca. 1876

The Lost Mind
Elihu Vedder · 1864–65

Upper Ausable Lake
Homer Dodge Martin, born Albany, NY 1836-died St. Paul, MN 1897 · 1868

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Old Normandy Bridge
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1903

The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York
Homer Dodge Martin, born Albany, NY 1836-died St. Paul, MN 1897 · ca. 1862

The Georgia Delegation in Congress - Photographed by Brady, from Harper's Weekly, January 5, 1861
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1861
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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1121716 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 11:39 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.