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 Minott” — 43 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Communion Dish
Samuel Minott · ca. 1764
Althaea rosea (L.) Cav.
Artist not stated in the record · -- Aug ----

Cann
Samuel Minott · ca. 1765
Sparganium americanum Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1880

Cann
Samuel Minott · ca. 1770

Veronica scutellata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1880

Pedicularis canadensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1880

Cornus florida L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1880

Panax trifolius L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1880

Spiraea sorbifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1880

Oenothera perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · -- jun ----

Uvularia sessilifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1880

Uvularia perfoliata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1880

Osmunda regalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1880

Equisetum arvense L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1880
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. 24873 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 01:02 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.