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. 21 shown for “Myron H. Kimball” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rebecca, Charley and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans
Myron H. Kimball · 1863–64

Emancipated Slaves
Myron H. Kimball, active 1850s - 1860s · 1863

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks
Myron H. Kimball · December 1863

Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored
Unidentified Artist · 1863

Statuette of a canid-headed god, probably Anubis
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Herber Chase Kimball and Jedediah Morgan Grant
W. H. Gibbs, 1850 - 1860? · 1855

Parlor Scene
Alonzo Myron Kimball · 1906
Dendroica magnolia
Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 1935

Painted Panel with Isis and Nephthys
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Calidris minutilla
Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1933

Vase with abstract decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Auguste Renoir · 1881
Piranga flava hepatica
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1924

Tea bowl and saucer with lotus decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century
Piranga ludoviciana
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1923

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Dendroica petechia sonorana
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1923

Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887
Wilsonia pusilla pileolata
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1910

Thomas H. Humphrey, Champion Juvenile Roller Skater, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887
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. 84 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 893665 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-10 10:56 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.