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. 24 shown for “The Story of Samuel” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Story of Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Samuel Clay Williams
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1935

Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)
Guillaume Coustou the Elder · ca. 1727

Bebbia juncea var. aspera Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1891

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
Thomas Lipton
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1924

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners
Master of the Story of Joseph

Wilbert Robinson
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1930

The Libyan Sibyl
William Wetmore Story · 1860; carved 1861

Elsa Einstein
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1930

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

William Curtis Bok
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Maxim Litvinov
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

Cleopatra
William Wetmore Story · 1858, carved 1869

William Hartman Woodin
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

Medea
William Wetmore Story · 1865; carved 1868

George V
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1932

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Ludwig Mueller
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · c. 1935

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1680

George N. Peek
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1933

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

Neville Chamberlain
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1932
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. 8451 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. 2994834 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 06:13 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.