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. 19 shown for “Manley, Horace A.” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a "Mamelouk"
Horace Vernet · 1810

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Manley, Horace A. · ca 1879

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)
Horace Vernet · probably 1822 or 1823

Dr. James R. Manley
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1839

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Dasymutilla mickeli
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1983

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180
Ceramium rubrum C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 1888

Horace Mann
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Photomorphus (Photomorphina) archboldi
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1984 to 30 Apr 1984

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
Conferva inequalis
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1888

Horace Vernet (1789–1863)
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1828
Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1888

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844) with the Bust of Horace Vernet
Horace Vernet · 1833 or later

Vase-technique Carpet with Overlapping Cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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Clarinet in B-flat
Horace Meacham · ca. 1825

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses
Horace Vernet · 1820

Portrait of a Gentleman
Horace Hone · 1807
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. 995 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1765935 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:20 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.