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, died 1875” — 59 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1622

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

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

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

Artillery, Musician
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

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

Ordnance, Private
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

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

Artillery, Quartermaster Sergeant
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

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

Fatigue, Marching Order
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Seated Young Woman
Oliver H. Willard, died 1875 · ca 1857

Light Artillery, Sergeant Major
Oliver H. Willard · 1866

Orbivestus karaguensis (Oliv. & Hiern) H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/5/84
![[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

90c Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry special printing single
Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

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

Madonna and Child Enthroned
Carlo Crivelli · 1472

90c Perry single
Continental Bank Note Company · June 25, 1875

The Flight into Egypt
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

90c Perry plate proof single
Continental Bank Note Company · June 25, 1875

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray
Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949 · 1910
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 0 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. 941959 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 03:23 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.