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. 15 shown for “Murray, Lindley” — 43 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lindley Murray
Asher Brown Durand · 1827

The English Reader
Murray, Lindley

Mrs. John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806

Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which Is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry
Artist not stated in the record · 1838

John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806

English Grammar
Artist not stated in the record

Trigonocarpum dawesii Lindley & Hutton
Artist not stated in the record

Trigonocarpum dawesii Lindley & Hutton
Artist not stated in the record

Ctenophyllum taxinum (Hutton & Lindley) Fontaine
Artist not stated in the record

Trigonocarpum dawesii Lindley & Hutton
Artist not stated in the record

Sphenopteris obovata Hutton & Lindley
Artist not stated in the record

Podozamites lanceolatus (Hutton & Lindley) Schimper
Artist not stated in the record

Pseudopecopteris macilenta (Hutton & Lindley) Lesquereux
Artist not stated in the record

Pseudopecopteris macilenta (Hutton & Lindley) Lesquereux
Artist not stated in the record

Lepidostrobus variabilis Lindley & Hutton
Artist not stated in the record
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9694 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-03 13:53 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.