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. 9 shown for “Echo, American, founded 1923” — 64 records examined, 55 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Yellow Room
James McNeill Whistler · ca. 1883–84
Red, pink, and green striped scarf
Echo, American, founded 1923 · most likely mid-1960s
Echo Lake, New Hampshire
Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · 1875–80
Echo Lake, Morning
Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · 1878
Passer domesticus domesticus
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1968
Sentinel Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah
Unidentified · ca. 1875
Witches Rock, near Echo City, Utah
Carleton E. Watkins, born Oneonta, NY 1829-died Imola, CA 1916 · 1873
![[Echo Lake, North Conway, Franconia, White Mountains], by Unidentified](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DSAAM-1994.91.199_1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Echo Lake, North Conway, Franconia, White Mountains]
Unidentified · ca. 1870
Handstamp APO 927
Artist not stated in the record · 1923
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. 378 matched · 24 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1078544 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 16:24 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.