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. 21 shown for “Joseph Morin” — 49 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marriage spruce gum box in book form
Joseph Morin · February 27, 1903

Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

The Goddess of Discord in the Garden of the Hesperides, from "lllustrated London News"
Henry Linton · January 31, 1857

Cirsium muticum Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

The Annunciation
Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1644

Drosera intermedia Hayne
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

Iris and Sparrow
Utagawa Hiroshige · ca. 1832

Cirsium muticum Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

Glass bottle with dolphin handles
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century CE

Equisetum fluviatile L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1942

Breastplate
Giovan Paolo Negroli · ca. 1540–45

Isoetes echinospora Durieu
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Sep 1940

Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942

Glass bottle in the shape of a fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Campanula griffinii Morin
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1946

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1892

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin
Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1897

Nemacladus orientalis (McVaugh) Morin
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1961

Limnanthes alba subsp. parishii (Jeps.) Morin
Artist not stated in the record · 1880
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 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. 84516 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 23:21 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.