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 “Lucy Gwin” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lucy Gwin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Lucy Gwin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

William McKendree Gwin
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1840

Mrs. William McKendree Gwin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Mrs. William McKendree Gwin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Melica torreyana Scribn.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1902

Lucy E. Parsons (frontispiece to "The Life of Albert R. Parsons: With Brief History of the Labor Movement in America")
Unidentified Artist · 1889

Lucy Stone
Sumner Bradley Heald, 26 Sep 1835 - 7 Jul 1918 · c. 1866

Lucy Stone
Unidentified Artist · c. 1855
Hypnea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 2003

The Silver Goblet
Lucy May Stanton, 22 May 1875 - 19 Mar 1931 · 1912
Vaucheria sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 2003
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16046 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-06 03:29 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.