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. 13 shown for “Samuel Amsler” — 43 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
La petite bouteille bleue
Samuel Amsler
Amsler Type 2 Polar Planimeter
Amsler, Jacob · ca 1925

Seated Female Nude Seen from the Back
Samuel Amsler · 1819
Hincksia onslowensis (Amsler & Kapraun) P.C. Silva
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1984

Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Carl Witte
Samuel Amsler · 1819
Hincksia onslowensis (Amsler & Kapraun) P.C. Silva
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 2004
Hincksia onslowensis (Amsler & Kapraun) P.C. Silva
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1964
Paraglossum amsleri S.-M. Lin & Hommers.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 2013

Codium fragile (Suringar) P. Hariot
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Oct 1989

Paraglossum amsleri S.-M. Lin & Hommers.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 2013

Samuel Adams
Samuel Okey, active 1765 - 1780 · 1775

Samuel F. B. Morse
Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1870

Samuel F. B. Morse
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1862
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24761 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 06:52 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.