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. 15 shown for “Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938” — 43 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Samuel Arlent Edwards
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1900

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

Joseph Jefferson
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · c. 1902

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Maude Adams
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1904

Joseph Jefferson
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · c. 1902

Ethel Barrymore
Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1861 - 1938 · 1901

George Edward Pickett
Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

Samuel Hubbard and Edward King
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant
Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881 · 1867

Samuel Ryan Curtis
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

Samuel Ryan Curtis
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1861

Samuel M. Horton
Barr & Young, active 1860s · n.d.a.
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. 247908 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.