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. 16 shown for “John Murray” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806

John Murray
Samuel Hill, c. 1766 - 1804 · 1793

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
John Lloyd Stephens · 1842

John Murray Corse
Unidentified Artist · c. 1864

Mrs. John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806

John Murray
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

Suttee Ghat Cawnpore
John Murray · 1858

John Murray Anderson
Kasebier, Gertrude · ca 1900

Taj Agra
John Murray · Late 1850s

Caryophyllia mabahithi
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1933

Suttee Ghat, Cawnpore
John Murray · 1858

The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray
John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843 · 1806

Fort Agra, The Delhi Gate
John Murray · 1850s

Cynoglossus acutirostris
Artist not stated in the record

Taj Mahal and Gardens
John Murray · ca. 1855

The Diwan-i Khas from the Mussaman Burj, Agra Palace
John Murray · 1862–64
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. 382 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 269063 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:54 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.