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. 19 shown for “E. E. Highgate” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:35 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
Lepus americanus virginianus
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1971
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Buckholdt & Son Hardware, Charleroi, Pennsylvania], by E. E. Highgate](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-415.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Buckholdt & Son Hardware, Charleroi, Pennsylvania]
E. E. Highgate · 1880s–1890s
Teapot
George E. Ohr · ca. 1897–1900
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1929
Sprite
Donatello · 1432
Potamogeton spirillus Tuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1929
Sealing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE
Carex arcta Boott
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1901
Lonchocarpus heptaphyllus (Poir.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1967
Tetraphis pellucida Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1838
Rubus bloxamii (Bab.) Lees
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1878
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685
Rubus euryanthemus W.C.R. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 1886
View on the Columbia, Cascades
Carleton E. Watkins · 1867
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1962
Cape Horn near Celilo
Carleton E. Watkins · 1867
Chloris virgata Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1938
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. 32142 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1105212 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-04 10:35 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.