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. 24 shown for “Benjamin R. Stickney” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side Chair
Benjamin Randolph · ca. 1769
Coiling machine
Benjamin R. Stickney · 1920-1959 (BEP)
Hagar and Ishmael
Benjamin West · 1776, reworked 1803
Rotary Intaglio web press
American Telegraphic Company of Baltimore · 1914-1955 (BEP)
Tankard
Benjamin Wynkoop · 1700–1730
Sphagnum squarrosum Hampe
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1970
Teakettle
Benjamin Brewood II · 1762–63
Tortella tortuosa Limpr. & Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1970
Terracotta stamnos (jar)
Painter of London B 343 · late 6th century BCE
Plagiomnium cuspidatum (Hedw.) T.J. Kop.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1970
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s
Rhizomnium appalachianum T.J. Kop.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1970
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Willson Peale · 1787
Thlaspi fendleri var. glaucum (A. Nelson) C.L. Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/5/60
Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Baptiste Nini · 18th century
Cryptantha affinis (A. Gray) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1960
Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Baptiste Nini · 18th century
Muhlenbergia filiformis (Thurb. ex S. Watson) Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 24/8/59
Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Baptiste Nini · 18th century
Orthotrichum laevigatum var. macounii
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 2/4/63
Benjamin Franklin
Pierre Alexandre Tardieu · 1798
Physcomitrium megalocarpum Kindb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/5/63
Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670
Castilleja hispida Benth. ex Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1957
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. 238 matched · 24 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. 1002291 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 06:25 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.