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. 17 shown for “Samuel Herbert” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Herbert Hoover
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1928

Dish cross
Samuel Herbert · 1761–62

Edwin Herbert Land
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1941

Dish cross
Samuel Herbert · 1764–65

Samuel Warren Holland, Aged Two Years
M. W. Hopkins, born Harwinton, CT 1789-died Williamsburgh, OH 1844 · 19th century

Skewer
Samuel Herbert · 1760–61

Counter Top Cigar Store Figure
Samuel Anderson Robb, born New York City 1851-died New York City 1928 · ca. 1880

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Uncle Sam Recruiting Figure
Unidentified · ca. 1916-1918

Sabrina
Samuel Palmer · 1856

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
Samuel F. B. Morse · ca. 1836–37

Snuffbox
Samuel Pemberton · 1803

Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017
Samuel Colt · 1847

Box
Samuel Pemberton · 1796–97

Vinaigrette
Samuel Pemberton · ca. 1800
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 42505 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 01:20 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.