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 “Gordon, George Phineas” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Gordon, George Phineas · ca 1861
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Patent Model for Platen Printing Press
Gordon, George Phineas · ca 1863
A Deerhound
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826
Patent for a Hand Cylinder Printing Press
Gordon, George Phineas · ca 1859
Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35
George Gordon Meade
Unidentified Artist · c. 1863
Square Piano
George Astor · 1784–98
George Gordon Meade
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
The Upsetting of the Reform Coach
John Doyle · June 4, 1834
George Gordon Meade
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1863
Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal
John Doyle · May 14, 1838
George Gordon Meade
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869 · c. 1863
Cast Off Machiners Selling By Auction
John Doyle · February 16, 1835
George Gordon Meade
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1864
Hidden silhouette: the spirit of Byron in the Greek Isles
Henry Burn · ca. 1825
The Ascension of Saint Benedict; verso: Ornamental sketches
Hans Georg Asam · late 17th–early 18th century
Kneeling Milkmaid
Francesco Londonio · 1723–83
Charles George Gordon, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1888
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. 210 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 198061 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 2026-09-05 22:20 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.