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 “Webster Company” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Watch
William Webster · ca. 1720–30

Female Skier
Webster Company · ca. 1900

Quarter repeater watch
William Webster · ca. 1770

Sharp's Language Drills and Test: Fifth Grade
Artist not stated in the record · 1929

Repeater watch
William Webster · 18th century

15c Webster plate proof single
National Bank Note Company · 1870 - 1871

Daniel Webster
Thomas Ball · 1853

15c Webster plate proof single
Continental Bank Note Company · July 22, 1873
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] · 1885

15c Webster single
Continental Bank Note Company · July 22, 1873

The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington
Brady, D'Avignon and Company · 1850

15c Webster with Grill single
National Bank Note Company · 1870

Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, 2nd Base, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1888

15c Webster Sample overprint single
American Bank Note Company · 1880

Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1888

15c Webster Specimen overprint single
American Bank Note Company · 1879

Henry Clay
Thomas Ball · 1858

15c Daniel Webster single
National Bank Note Company · 1870

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy
Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

15c Daniel Webster single
American Bank Note Company · 1879

Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1880s

15c Webster Sample A overprint single
American Bank Note Company · 1879

Card Number 367, Lizzie Webster, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1880s

Daniel Webster
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1852
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 68704 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.