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 “William Morris Smith” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Camp of Captain Hoff, Rear View, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
William Morris Smith · July 1865

Members of the Press After the Ceremonies
Artist not stated in the record · 1865

William Loughton Smith
Archibald Robertson · ca. 1795

Montage of American Theatrical Figures
Unidentified Artist · 1866

Pink and Rose
William Morris · ca. 1890

William Morris Hunt
Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907 · 1886-87

Openwork fruit basket
American China Manufactory · ca. 1770–72

William Morris Hunt
Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900 · c. 1850

Two-handled vase
Columbian Art Pottery (Morris and Willmore) · 1893–1900

William Morris Meredith
Unidentified Artist · c. 1845

Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654

William Morris Hunt
James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · c. 1875

Portrait of William Duguid
Prince Demah Barnes · 1773

Captain Morris
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

The Backgammon Players
Philip Webb · 1861

William H. Morris
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Chair
Christopher Dresser · 1870

Tintype of William H. Morris
Artist not stated in the record · 1864-1865

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787

Mrs. Elizabeth Fritz Morris
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Charger
William De Morgan · 1882–88

Capt. Gilbert Morris
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Jane Morris
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1873

Plantago erecta Morris
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1912
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. 1499 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 392890 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 06:33 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.