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 “Strong box” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Strong box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Strong box and key
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Box
Magdalen Feline · 1771–72

Box
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Patent model for leather bound case
Sherriff, John · ca 1870

Box
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Microscope
R. & J. Beck · ca 1890

Box
François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Portrait of Moses McCure Strong (1810-1894)
Broich & Kremer · 1876

Box
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1728–30

Cephalocarpus spongiosus (M.T. Strong) M.T. Strong
Artist not stated in the record

Battery Strong -- 1 300 Pound Parrott Rifle
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1860-65

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Caleb Strong
Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54

Octagonal Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th or early 13th century

Writing Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Spice box with grater
Nicolas Mahon · 1723–24

Seal box
Benjamin Laver · 1783–84
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. 248 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 121517 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 2026-08-27 14:19 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.