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. 20 shown for “Richard Henry Park” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Edgar Allan Poe Memorial
Richard Henry Park · 1882–84; carved 1884

Untitled (Head of a Young Girl, possibly "Early Sorrow")
Richard Henry Park, born New York City 1832-died Battle Creek, MI 1902 · 1872

Dining room from Kirtlington Park
John Sanderson · 1748

Yellowstone Geyser
Richard Norris Brooke, born Warrenton, VA 1847-died Warrenton, VA 1920 · n.d.

Division Viol
Richard Meares · ca. 1680

Journal for a trip to Yellowstone National Park written by Richard T. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
John Hoppner

Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1944

Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696)
Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

Columbina passerina
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1973

The Organ Rehearsal
Henry Lerolle · 1885

Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

Roadside Halt
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826

View near Rouen
Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825

Center table
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Lepidocolaptes affinis
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Thripadectes virgaticeps
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1973

Richard Morris Hunt
Karl Theodore Bitter · 1891, cast 1892

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544
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. 1617 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 307505 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 20:41 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.