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 “Stowe, Harriet Beecher” — 49 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southworth and Hawes · 1850s

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860 · c. 1850-60

Abolition Meeting Held at Willis's Rooms in Honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Henry Fisk · 1853

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Francis Holl, 1815 - 1884 · c. 1855

Cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dora Wheeler Keith, 1857 - 1940 · 1890

En Angleterre: Pauvre Jenny!, from "Le Journal Illustré," no. 55
Henry Linton · February 26–March 5, 1865

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1898

Mrs. James Thomas Fields (Annie Adams)
Southworth and Hawes · 1861

Harriet Beecher Stowe
J. Jones · n.d.a.

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unidentified Artist · 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863? · c. 1860

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Artist not stated in the record

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1861

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3563 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.