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 “Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938” — 45 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Couch
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Marian Hague as a Child
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1883

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

William Hague
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1900–15

Pair of Candelabra
Tiffany & Co. · 1884

Mary and Eleanor Hague in a Hammock
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1883

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Cinching Up, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVIII, No. 1, May 1889, p. 2)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

The Antioch "Chalice"
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550

The Sheriff's Posse, Illustration for Century Magazine (XXXVII, No. 3, January 1889, p. 449)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Point Lookout
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1883

Taboret
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

The Last Trip In, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVIII, No. 3, July 1889, p, 342)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

Window Seat
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

The Coming of Winter, Illustration for Century Magazine (XXXVII, No, 2, December, 1888, p. 162.
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1888

Taboret
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Afternoon at a Ranch, Illustration for Century Magazine (XXVIII, No. 4, August 1889, p. 502)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

The Choice of Reuben and Gad, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVII, No. 5, March 1889, p. 687)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

Alto Saxhorn in E-flat
John Howard Foote · ca. 1865–80

The Irrigating Ditch, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVIII, No. 2, June 1889, p. 299)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

The Orchard Wind-Break, Illustration for The Century Magazine (XXXVII, No. 4, February 1889, p. 501)
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1889
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. 130 matched · 24 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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 7 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 23:21 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.