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. 11 shown for “Samuel Hollyer, 1826 - 1919” — 41 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mr. Fleming as Edgar: "Away! the foul fiend follows me" (King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)
Samuel Hollyer · 1855

Walt Whitman
Samuel Hollyer, 1826 - 1919 · c. 1854-55

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Samuel Hollyer, 1826 - 1919 · 1881

Daniel Webster
Samuel Hollyer, born London, England 1826-died New York City 1919 · n.d.

Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826
Artist not stated in the record

Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826
Artist not stated in the record

Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826
Artist not stated in the record

Adelosina laevigata d'Orbigny, 1826
Artist not stated in the record

James Smithson Carte de Visite, London, England, ca. 1826
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1826

Lieutenant Samuel Baldwin
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Samuel Bowles II
Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1870
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 92164 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 2026-09-04 15:35 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.