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 “Letter to Oliver Wolcott from Ezekiel Williams” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:50 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 Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Letter to Oliver Wolcott from Ezekiel Williams
Artist not stated in the record · June 1, 1785

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Cover to Oliver Wolcott from Ezekiel Williams
Artist not stated in the record · June 1, 1785

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks
Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833 · 1825

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M1383.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Sampler
Eliza Hodges Oliver · 1829
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M2953_1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Olive Trees
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M2953_3.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M2952_1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Tile from a Mihrab
Artist not stated in the record · dated 722 AH/1322–23 CE
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M2953_2.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
![U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_81_M2952_2.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II
Artist not stated in the record · 1828

Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Oliver Wolcott
James Barton Longacre, born Delaware County, PA 1794-died Philadelphia, PA 1869

Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field
Robert Peake the Elder · 1603

Portrait of Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1822-1908)
Warren, George Kendall 1824-1884 · 1870
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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1318236 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-31 23:50 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.