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 Smith” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coffee Pot on Stand (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805
Benjamin Smith Barton
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802
Teapot (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805
Benjamin Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809
Sugar Bowl (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804
Benjamin Bosworth Smith
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1844
Milk Jug (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804
Benjamin West
Artist not stated in the record · 1770
Hot Water Urn (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804
Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1903
Centerpiece
Benjamin Smith, II · 1821–22
Marshallia grandiflora Beadle & F.E. Boynton
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1905
Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808
Carex stricta Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1901
Pair of coasters
Benjamin Smith, II · 1807
Andrew Jackson
Benjamin F. Smith, Jr., 1830 - 1927 · 1853
Sigismonda (Sigismunda)
Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795
Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778 by John Smith
Smith, John · ca 1869
William Hogarth
Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795
Muhlenbergia andina (Nutt.) Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1901
Love and Learning, or the Oxford Scholar
Benjamin Smith · May 12, 1786
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1901
Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions
Benjamin Smith · 1799
Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1901
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. 102 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 154194 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-29 07:56 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.