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. 12 shown for “Wilson and Fenimore” — 40 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Ceiling paper
Wilson and Fenimore · 1875–1900

Frieze
Wilson and Fenimore · 1905–1915

James Fenimore Cooper
Julien Leopold Boilly, 1796 - 1874 · 1831

James Fenimore Cooper
Oliver Pelton, 1798 - 1882 · 1838

James Fenimore Cooper
Amélie Kautz De Lacepede, 1796 - 1860 · c. 1827

James Fenimore Cooper
Amélie Kautz De Lacepede, 1796 - 1860 · c. 1830-40

James Fenimore Cooper
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

James Fenimore Cooper
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860

Celebrated Authors
Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833

2c James Fenimore Cooper plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Our Great Authors
Thomas S. Sinclair, c. 1805 - 1881 · 1865
Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1918
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1499074 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 02:48 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.