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. 13 shown for “Jacob Eichholtz” — 41 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Samuel Humes
Jacob Eichholtz · ca. 1825

Portrait of a Man
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · ca. 1809

Portrait of a Woman
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · ca. 1809

James Buchanan
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · 1834

John Stone
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · ca. 1811-1842

Joshua Tevis
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · 1827

Jane Evans Tevis
Jacob Eichholtz, born Lancaster, PA 1776-died Lancaster, PA 1842 · 1827

Thaddeus Stevens
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1838

Nicholas Biddle
Henry Dawe, 1790 - 1848 · 1837

Jacob Riis Self-Portrait
Jacob Riis, 3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914 · c. 1901

Jacob Duché
Thomas Clarke, active late 18th century · 1779

Jacob Riis
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900
John Jacob Niles
Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1931
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 17415 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 20:31 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.