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. 12 shown for “James Frothingham” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Daniel Webster
Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836 · c. 1835

Daniel Webster
Woodcock & Harvey Engraving Co., active 1838 - 1845? · 1838

Lady of the Frothingham Family
Moses B. Russell, born Woodstock, NH ca. 1810-died 1884 · ca. 1835

Gentleman of the Frothingham Family
Moses B. Russell, born Woodstock, NH ca. 1810-died 1884 · ca. 1835

Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco
Artist not stated in the record

Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco
Artist not stated in the record

Ulmus thomasii Sarg.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1918

Robert Edwards Carter
Sarah C. Frothingham, born 1821-died New York City 1861 · ca. 1840

Sarah Rand Carter
Sarah C. Frothingham, born 1821-died New York City 1861 · ca. 1840

Sarah Carter Stearns
Sarah C. Frothingham, born 1821-died New York City 1861 · ca. 1845

Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
Sarah C. Frothingham, born 1821-died New York City 1861 · ca. 1840

James Garfield
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1883-87
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118558 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-26 16:02 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.