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. 18 shown for “Christopher Townsend” — 47 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
High chest
Christopher Townsend · 1748
Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907
Standard Bearer
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
Turtle Vessel
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Cabinet card of Jane Townsend and LouElla McMurray
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1890s
Seated Figure with Vessel
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1895
Seated Figure with vessel
Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE
Cabinet card of Laura Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1899
Shell Vessel
Colima artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend from Willa Ann Hadley Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · March 30, 1916
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1925
Negative of Dr. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1925
Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907
Photograph of Arthur Melvin Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1890s
Cabinet card of Blanch E. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1896-1898
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a statue
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16907 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 05:00 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.