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 “Robert Salmon” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:35 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.

Harbor Scene
Robert Salmon, born Whitehaven, England 1775-died Cumberland, England 1848 · 1842

The Supreme Court of the United States
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1867

Last Moments of President Lincoln
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1865

Papaver lapponicum (Tolm.) Nordh.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1938

Salmon P. Chase
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900 · 1861

Cordulegaster maculata
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1956

Ditrichum flexicaule (Schwaegr.) Hamp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1898

Bryum subsmaragdinum Müll. Hal.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1898

Figures from Sistine Chapel ceiling
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1938

Pedicularis hirsuta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1938

Artemisia frigida Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1899
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. 154962 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-04 10:35 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.