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Images / art

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 “Muybridge, Eadweard” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge

Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Eadweard Muybridge Self-Portrait, by Eadweard Muybridge, 9 Apr 1830 - 8 May 1904

Eadweard Muybridge Self-Portrait

Eadweard Muybridge, 9 Apr 1830 - 8 May 1904 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attitudes of Animals in Motion, by Eadweard Muybridge

Attitudes of Animals in Motion

Eadweard Muybridge · 1879, printed 1881

Public domainThe Met
Broken Pieces of Eadweard Muybridge Glass Plate Positives, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Broken Pieces of Eadweard Muybridge Glass Plate Positives

Muybridge, Eadweard

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume VII, Men and Woman (Draped) Miscellaneous Subjects, by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume VII, Men and Woman (Draped) Miscellaneous Subjects

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Eadweard Muybridge, by Eadweard Muybridge, 9 Apr 1830 - 8 May 1904

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, 9 Apr 1830 - 8 May 1904 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume XI, Wild Animals and Birds, by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume XI, Wild Animals and Birds

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Broken Support Glass Pieces from the Eadweard Muybridge Glass Plate Positives, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Broken Support Glass Pieces from the Eadweard Muybridge Glass Plate Positives

Muybridge, Eadweard

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume VI, Woman (Semi-Nude and Transparent Drapery) Children, by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume VI, Woman (Semi-Nude and Transparent Drapery) Children

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 489., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 489.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume I, Men (Nude), by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume I, Men (Nude)

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 519., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 519.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume IV, Women (Nude), by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume IV, Women (Nude)

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 490., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 490.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume V, Man (Pelvis Cloth), by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume V, Man (Pelvis Cloth)

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 491., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 491.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume IX, Horses, by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume IX, Horses

Eadweard Muybridge · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 3., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 3.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume II, Men (Nude), by Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume II, Men (Nude)

Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 2., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 2.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sausalito from the N.P.C.R.R. Wharf, Looking South, by Eadweard Muybridge

Sausalito from the N.P.C.R.R. Wharf, Looking South

Eadweard Muybridge · ca. 1868

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 5., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 5.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffee Harvesting, Las Nubes-Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge

Coffee Harvesting, Las Nubes-Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Animal Locomotion. Plate 6., by Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion. Plate 6.

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2416 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 21:44 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.