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 “Willard, Archibald M.” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Balloon" Shelf Clock
Simon Willard · 1780–90

When, in the Course of Human Events It Becomes Necessary
Willard, Archibald M. · ca 1876

Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Cooper · February 1809

Why Bless My Heart, Johnny, You're Welcome! How's Your Mother ?
Willard, Archibald M. · 1876
![[Man Holding Patent Office Book], by Oliver H. Willard](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP109602.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Man Holding Patent Office Book]
Oliver H. Willard · ca. 1857

Archibald Davidson; coverlet; Figured and Fancy, double cloth; 1835; New York
Davidson, Archibald · 1846

Christ Carrying the Cross
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1577–87

Archibald Grimké
The Donaldson Studio · c. 1913

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1535

Archibald Bruce
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1796

Composite Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1485 and later, composed in the early 20th century

Portrait of Joseph Clapp Willard (1820-1897)
Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague) · 1878

Saint Antoninus Kneeling before the Crucifix in Orsanmichele, Florence
Bernardino Poccetti · 1600–1605

Joseph Tuckerman
M. Gauci, active 1810 - 1846 · 1834

Endymion Sleeping
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1635–50

Archibald Stuart
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Archibald Pleasants, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

Porringer
Jacob Hurd · ca. 1740

Archibald Brooks
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Lechea intermedia var. depauperata Hodgdon
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1935

Teapot
Kenneth McKenzie · 1733–34

Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1935
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. 35 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. 1184814 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-06 00:19 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.