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. 20 shown for “Worthington Whittredge” — 52 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Evening in the Woods
Worthington Whittredge · 1876

The Birches of the Catskills
Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · ca. 1875

Worthington Whittredge
Emanuel Leutze · 1856

Seconnet Point, Rhode Island
Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · ca. 1880

The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge · 1870

The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome
Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1860

The Camp Meeting
Worthington Whittredge · 1874

Interior of a Westphalian Cottage
Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1852

The Brook in the Woods
Worthington Whittredge · ca. 1885–86

Noon in the Orchard
Worthington Whittredge, born Springfield, OH 1820-died Summit, NJ 1910 · 1900

Couch
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Albert Gallatin
Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 22 May 1820 - 25 Feb 1910 · after 1859

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

John Whitridge
William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · modeled 1873-1874

Taboret
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

E. C. Worthington
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898

Window Seat
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Taboret
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Tivoli
William Stanley Haseltine · 1858
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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. 494 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:54 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.