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. 19 shown for “Samuel L. Buck” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique, v. 1 - 5
Goupil et Cie · 1876–1881

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)
Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Samuel L. Buck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

Pearl S. Buck
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1938

Figure of Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1075–1100

Tankard
Samuel Alexander · ca. 1796

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland
Samuel Buck · 1728

George Washington
Rembrandt Peale · ca. 1846
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. 1117 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1316612 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:04 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.