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 “Oliver H. Willard” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Artillery, Musician
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Self-Portrait
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1855

Ordnance, Private
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Portrait of a Young Woman
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

Artillery, Quartermaster Sergeant
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Portrait of a Gentleman with White Hair
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca 1857

Fatigue, Marching Order
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Portrait of a Man in Masonic Attire
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

Light Artillery, Sergeant Major
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Portrait of a Man
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca. 1857

Baptismal Bowl
Oliver Trask · 1830–40

Seated Young Woman
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca 1857
![[Man Holding Patent Office Book], by Oliver H. Willard](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP109602.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Man Holding Patent Office Book]
Oliver H. Willard · ca. 1857

Maerua nervosa Oliv.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1960

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Cabinet card of W. H. Willard
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Doremus lamppost mailbox
Reading Stove Works · Patent date: 1894

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record

Jar with loop handles
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Parapolydora fastigiata (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1955

Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Gymnanthemum thomsonianum (Oliv. & Hiern in Oliv.) H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · 1932
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. 634 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. 907702 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 2026-09-06 01:45 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.