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. 14 shown for “Charles Parsons, born Rowland's Castle, England 1821-died New York City 1910” — 26 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Watch in the form of a Lesser George
Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600
U.S. Mail Steamer, Illinois
Charles Parsons, born Rowland's Castle, England 1821-died New York City 1910 · ca. 1835-1861
Central Park, Winter – The Skating Pond
Charles Parsons · 1862
American Field Sports. "On a Point."
Charles Parsons, born Rowland's Castle, England 1821-died New York City 1910 · 1857
An Interior View of the New York Crystal Palace
Charles Parsons · 1853
Clipper Ship "Nightingale" getting under weigh off the Battery, New York
James E. Buttersworth · 1854
Cutter Yacht "Scud" of Philadelphia – Modelled by Robert L. Stevens, Esq.
Charles Parsons · 1855
Clipper Ship "Red Jacket" – In the Ice off Cape Horn, on Her Passage from Australia, to Liverpool, August 1854
Charles Parsons · 1855
The Express Train
Charles Parsons · 1859
The Express Train
Charles Parsons · 1859
Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Tuskar Light, 12 1/2 Days from New York on her Celebrated Passage into Dock of Liverpool in 13 Days 11 Hours, December 1854
Charles Parsons · 1856
Clipper Ship "Racer"
James E. Buttersworth · 1854
Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Sandy Hook, February 23, 1854, nineteen days from Liverpool
James E. Buttersworth · 1854
Clipper Ship "Comet" of New York in a Hurricane off Bermuda on her Voyage from New York to San Francisco, October 1852
Charles Parsons · 1855
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. 33 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:07 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.