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 “Pennington, Susan M. H.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Invention for Improvement in Processes of Coloring Photographs
Pennington, Susan M. H. · ca 1878-07-09

Sprite
Donatello · 1432
Ludwigia densiflora (Micheli) H. Hara
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1976

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century

Photograph of Hank Pennington
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s-1910s

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Perebea xanthochyma H. Karst.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/2/62

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Jamesonia robusta H. Karst.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 27/2/61

Hanuman Conversing
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Munnozia asplundii H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/12/61

Two Pupils in Greek Dress
Thomas Eakins · 1880s

Photograph of Lucile Blanche Pennington
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Phytolacca sanguinea H. Walter in Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/11/61

George Moore (1852–1933)
Edouard Manet · 1879

Pentacalia arborea (Kunth) H. Rob. & Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 2/12/61
Ensemble
Josephine H. Egan · ca. 1882

Ageratina gracilis (Kunth) R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/11/61

Self-Portrait with a Harp
Rose Adélaïde Ducreux · 1791

Elaphoglossum engelii (H. Karst.) Christ
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/11/61

The Source of the Loue
Gustave Courbet · 1864

Munnozia jussieui (Cass.) H. Rob. & Brettell
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/12/61
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. 528 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1947547 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 13:16 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.