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. 13 shown for “Elite Studio” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: W. R. Dennis, Lincoln, Nebraska], by Elite Studio](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-025.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: W. R. Dennis, Lincoln, Nebraska]
Elite Studio · 1880s–1890s
Sample Plate
The Elite Works, French, ca. 1870 – 1930 · late 19th–early 20th century
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Forney Elite Studio, Abilene, Kansas
S. P. Forney · 1880s–1890s
Amusements at Kitano Shrine
Studio of Kano Takanobu · mid- to late 1610s
Sergeant John Lincoln Clem, The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga
Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland · ca. 1864
The Studio of Prolonged Soughing
You Yin · dated 1851
![[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle], by Hill and Adamson](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT4215.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle]
Hill and Adamson · April 9, 1846
Polychrome terracotta head vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–3rd century BCE
Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto
Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Smilie Bros. Dealers in Lumber and Pomona Progress, Pomona, California], by Denison & Howard](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-253.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Smilie Bros. Dealers in Lumber and Pomona Progress, Pomona, California]
Denison & Howard · 1880s–1890s
Orchid and rock
Ma Shouzhen · dated 1572
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70
Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion
Li Yin · 1700
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. 45 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. 13938 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 19:38 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.