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 “Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Veteran in a New Field
Winslow Homer · 1865

Prisoners from the Front
Winslow Homer · 1866

The Studio
Winslow Homer · 1867

Rainy Day in Camp
Winslow Homer · 1871

Distressed Boat (Sketch for "The Gulf Stream") (recto); Floor Plan Diagram; Elevation of a domestic residence (verso)
Winslow Homer · 1885

The Beach, Late Afternoon
Winslow Homer · 1869

Saddle Horse in Farm Yard
Winslow Homer · ca. 1870–75

Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)
Winslow Homer · 1870

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

Summer in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
Winslow Homer · July 10, 1869

The Beach at Long Branch (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. II)
Winslow Homer · August 21, 1869

The Last Load (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
Winslow Homer · August 7, 1869
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. 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 11:28 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.