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. 12 shown for “Richard Gurney” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Benjamin Gurney
Gurney & Son, 1860 - 1874 · c. 1862

Jeremiah Gurney
Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895 · c. 1859

Benjamin Gurney
Gurney & Son, 1860 - 1874 · c. 1876

Jeremiah Gurney
Henry Hunt Snelling, 1817 - 1897 · 1858

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1911

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1906

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1905

Joseph Gurney Cannon
William Oberhardt, 1882 - 1958 · 1921

J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery
John William Orr, 15 Mar 1815 - 1887 · c. 1852-54

Porzana porzana
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1909

Warren G. Harding, Robert Todd Lincoln and Joseph Gurney Cannon
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · May 30, 1922

Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon
Charles Davis Mitchell, 1887 - 1940 · c. 1905
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 64365 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 22:15 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.