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. 12 shown for “Louis Maurer, 1832 - 1932” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 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.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Abraham's Dream! – "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before"
Louis Maurer · 1864

"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act
Louis Maurer · 1860

Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up
Louis Maurer · 1860

The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball
Louis Maurer · 1860

A Matador
Edouard Manet · 1866–67

"Four-in-Hand"
Louis Maurer · 1861

"The Irrepressible Conflict," or the Republican Barque in Danger
Louis Maurer · 1860

The Rail Candidate
Louis Maurer · 1860

The Great Exhibition of 1860
Louis Maurer · 1860

"The Nigger" in the Woodpile
Louis Maurer · 1860

The Gun Boat Candidate, At the Battle of Malvern Hill
Louis Maurer · 1862

The Chicago Platform and Candidate
Louis Maurer · 1864
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. 25 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 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.