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. 20 shown for “Samuel Rogers” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Porringer
Samuel Vernon · 1700–1730

Ginevra
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1842

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

Ginevra (fragment)
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · revised 1863

Samuel Rogers
Sir Thomas Lawrence · August 16, 1822

Roger B. Taney
Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906 · 1857

Italy, A Poem
Samuel Rogers · 1830

Ginevra (first version, unfinished)
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1838

Jamb stove
Samuel Flower · 1756
Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) Dufour
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1960

Coffeepot
Samuel Edwards · 1745–60
Nephromopsis nivalis (L.) Divakar et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1960

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II
Artist not stated in the record · 1828

Armchair
Samuel McIntire · 1801

Congress Voting Independence
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · c. 1803 (1906 restrike)

The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861

Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–66, remodeled 1769–71
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. 1096 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 39389 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 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.