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 “Josiah Austin” — 59 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teapot
Josiah Austin · 1745–55

Josiah Quincy and Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

Salt
Josiah Austin · 1755–65

Josiah Johnson Hawes Self-Portrait
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 · c. 1895

Salt
Josiah Austin · 1755–65

Josiah Harlan
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Porringer
Josiah Austin · 1750–76

Josiah Quincy
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1796

The Times, Plate 2
William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Josiah Parker
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

The Times, Plate 2
William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Josiah Hewes Anthony
James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1790

The Times, Plate 2
William Hogarth · May 29, 1790

Josiah Quincy
Horatio Greenough, 6 Sep 1805 - 18 Dec 1852 · 1827

The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4
Robert Dodd · January 1, 1792

Josiah Hawes family
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 · c. 1890

William Hogarth
Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795

Josiah Meigs
Unidentified Artist · c. 1800

William Hogarth
Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795

Josiah Cook, Jr
Unidentified Artist · 1867

The Beggar's Opera, Act III
William Blake · July 1, 1790

Josiah Minot
L. Wieser, active c. 1881 · c. 1881

The Beggar's Opera, Act III
William Blake · July 1, 1790

Josiah Henson
Bradshaw & Godart, active 1876 - 1878 · 1876
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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. 18454 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 2026-08-29 05:42 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.