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 “John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796

Generals Harvey, Wood and Mansfield
John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · 1861

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Andrew Johnson
John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · c. 1864

Peasants Dancing and Feasting
David Teniers the Younger · ca. 1660

Andrew Jackson
John Henry Bufford, 1810 - 1870 · 1831-32

Another Peep into the Play-Ground – "You're none of my child"
John Doyle · December 31, 1838

Close up in the Rear
Bufford, John Henry · 1856-1864

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill
James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Dress up in Front
Bufford, John Henry · 1856-1864

Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal
John Doyle · May 14, 1838

Fetching the Old Mare Home
Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm · 1856-1864

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition
James Gillray · April 18, 1807

John H. Bufford. Practical Lithographer
Bufford, John Henry · before October 1859

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death
James Gillray · March 5, 1806

Black Valley Railroad by J. H. Bufford and Sons
J. H. Bufford and Sons · ca 1863

A Leaf Out of Nicholas Nickleby with Slight Variations – Nicholas quits the Company – Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles
John Doyle · March 26, 1839

The Ratcatcher's Daughter
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1855

A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain; or John Bull swamped in a Flood of Taxes
James Gillray · May 9, 1806

Yankee Volunteers Marching into Dixie in 1862 by
Morse, Charles Fessenden · 1862

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
Thomas Ryder I · first published 1794; reissued 1852

The Arkansas Traveller
J. H. Bufford and Company · 1859
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. 228 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 515017 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 2026-09-04 04:09 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.