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. 21 shown for “E. C. Stowe, American” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Tintype of a woman
E. C. Stowe, American · 1856-1900
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Vitis amurensis Rupr.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1993
Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cartau, active c. 1850 - 1860 · c. 1850-60
Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1749
Saussurea ussuriensis Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1993
Bohemian Bear Tamer
Paul Wayland Bartlett · 1885–87, cast 1888
Festuca ovina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1942
The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1625
Festuca ovina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1942
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Cirsium coryletorum Kom.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1993
View on the Columbia, Cascades
Carleton E. Watkins · 1867
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
The Town on the Hill, New Almaden
Carleton E. Watkins · 1863
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Francis Holl, 1815 - 1884 · c. 1855
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Silsbee Case & Company, active 1858 - 1863? · c. 1860
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
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. 3840 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2847030 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 06:26 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.