OpenTwo 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. 17 shown for “American Guitar” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Guitar
Manuel Ramírez · 1912
American Guitar
Artist not stated in the record · 1854
Guitar
Jean-Baptiste Voboam · 1697
Electric guitar belonging to Chuck Berry, nicknamed "Maybellene"
Artist not stated in the record · 1959
Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1838
Guitar
Unidentified · ca. 1920s-1930s
Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1837
Guild Thunderbass amplifier
Guild Guitar Company, American, 1952 - 1995 · before 1978
Guitar
Christian Frederick Martin · before 1867
Double neck guitar/synthesizer owned by Vernon Reid
Artist not stated in the record · 1986-1995
Guitar
Johann Anton Stauffer · ca. 1835–40
Bass guitar used by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang
Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1978
Guitar
Robert Chéron · 1694
Signed guitar and case owned by James Brown
Artist not stated in the record · 2002
Guitar
Joseph Bini · ca. 1870
Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins
Artist not stated in the record · July 2002
Josh White Model Guitar and case owned by Josh White
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1966
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. 128 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1010204 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:20 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.