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. 23 shown for “Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coutances Cathedral
Stanford White · ca. 1879

Sketch of Church of St. Nicholas, Caen, France
Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906 · 1878

Frame
Stanford White · 1870–1900

Design for Cooper Monument
Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906 · ca. 1900

View of the Hudson River from the Catskills
Stanford White · 1870s

Stanford White
Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934 · c. 1903

Sketch of Saint Gaudens's Statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Springfield, Massachusetts
Stanford White · ca. 1887

William Mead, Charles McKim, and Stanford White
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884, carved by 1888

Epimeria macrodonta
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1960

Charles F. McKim, Stanford White, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1878

Maxilliphimedia longipes
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1960

The Annunciate Virgin (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Polygonum segetum var. verrucosum Stanford
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1906

Diana
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1892–93, cast 1928

Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1906

Firescreen
John La Farge · 1884

Epimeria macrodonta
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1960

Square Piano
Robert Nunns · 1853

Micromeria douglasii Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1906 to 24 Aug 1906

The Angel Gabriel (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1552

Polygonum hydropiperoides var. bushianum Stanford
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1898

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
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. 39 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. 1144040 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:11 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.