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. 20 shown for “Edgar Melville Ward” — 54 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 22:51 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 Coppersmith
Edgar Melville Ward · ca. 1898
The Blockmaker
Edgar Melville Ward, born Urbana, OH 1839-died New York City 1915 · n.d.
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882
Portrait of J.Q.A. Ward, Sculptor
Francis Melville, born Brooklyn, NY 1832-died Chocorua, NH 1916 · n.d.
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Fifth Lake
Edgar Payne, born Washburn, MO 1882-died Los Angeles, CA 1947 · ca. 1928
Woman Drying Her Foot
Edgar Degas · 1885–86
Selaginella densa Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/6/37
Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
Edgar Degas · 1885
Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record
Artist not stated in the record · 1961
Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756
Yorkia gramineoides Ward in Fontaine In Ward
Artist not stated in the record
The Organ Rehearsal
Henry Lerolle · 1885
Melville E. Stone
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · c. 1898
The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595
Henry Ward Beecher
John Quincy Adams Ward, 29 Jun 1830 - 1 May 1910 · c. 1888-89
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s
Suit, SpaceShipOne, Mike Melvill
Artist not stated in the record
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Herodias
Francesco Cairo · before 1635
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 55459 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 22:51 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.